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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 W ashington County
News in 1929.
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Entered as second-class matter at the post office
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March 3, 1879.
Friday, November 3, 1933
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Something We Need
Many North Carolina cities, towns and coontry
communities are taking great interest in parent
teachers' associations, which are doubtless one of the
most beneficial things that any community can engage
in, especially for the cost required.
Such an organization establishes a friendship and
an understanding that cannot be very well gained in
any other way. Vet, we are sorry to say, that spirit
is very low in our city. There are a large number of
parents here who have never seen the teacher who has
charge of the culture and educational progress of their
children; and the same may be said of the teachers,
who may not have the deep sympathy of many of their
children, whose parents are sacrificing and suffering
to try to put their children further along in the world
of human progress than they themselves have ever
traveled. A simple acquaintance and a better under
standing of the hardships that both the teachers and
the parents have to undergo will do more to give us
three of society's richest values—friendship, sympathy
and love.
We need a strong parent-teacher association.
The Lion’s Den Wedding
That lion's den wedding at the Tarboro Fair re
cently was evidently a fair test for nerves. In fact,
we did not think there was a woman living, unless it
is Maggie Jiggs, who would face a den of lions; and
that lady who entered the lion's cage at the fair cer
tainly must have been an active candidate for mat
rimony.
Of course, her husband may regret, in future years,
that he ever left the lions’ cage.
Don't Sell Peanuts Too Soon
The permanent code for the peanut industry seems
to be having hard sledding before the NRA Board in
Washington. It is said that there is too much sel
fishness among some of the peanut millers.
Some of them seem to want the privilege of marking
their products below the United States standard, which
of course means a demoralized market, because buy
ers would never know what they were getting.
Another thing some of the mills are asking is not
to allow any government storage, except in the city
of Suffolk, Va„ which would seriously operate against
the farmer, who would be forced to haul his peanuts
to the Virginia city in order to procure loan collateral,
and when he got ready to sell he would be almost
forced to sell to Suffolk mills, since he would have to
rehaul to the Edenton mills, or any other Carolina
mills to which he might choose to sell. They would
at least force him to lose from the sale value of his
peanuts an amount equal to the freight cost for the
return of the peanuts to any local mills.
This is the year to watch the peanut market close
ly. We have a half crop or less in North Carolina,
and perhaps not so much more in Virginia.
Farmers, you are entitled to the benefits in higher
prices on account of the short crop. Don't sell too
soon. You are entitled to 3 rents or more. Don’t
forget that the mill man will buy as cheaply as he
possibly can.
Debts and Recovery
Oxford Public Ledger.
Somewhere down the line in its program, the re
covery administration may well afford to include a
“pay your debts” campaign.
Two prominent Oxford men, both of them in posi
tion to know something of the credit situation in the
community -and this community may be considered
an average of the state and nation—in an informal
discussion, pointed out that any marked degree of
prospperity must be preceded by an era of debt-pay
ing, and that is true.
The average person is head over-heels in debt and
it is going to take determination and consistent effort
to better this condition, especially as each day brings
new opportunities for thoughtless spending as credi
tors hang on to hopes in writhing anguish.
A clearing of debts will permit the creditors to open
new avenues of employment by building, spending
themselves and otherwise boosting the recovery pro
gram. As was said by the two conversers, there is no
excuse for one running off and spending recklessly
because of inability to pay all debts at once.
A conscientious effort in a program of debt pay
ing could bring about a tremendous improvement in
business before January 1. The NRA might well
afford to declare a “Pay Your Debts” campaig.
The Sooner the Better
The sooner Mr. Roosevelt cuts loose from the pres
ent banking system, which is practically the same pre
vailing for the past SO years, the better it will be
| for the country.
The Federal Reserve Banks are governed by men
, hose dividends are affected by their management and
;'..-y will most certainly take too much tribute off of
i the other fellow.
And, strange to say, for SO years our Treasury De
partment has been in the hands of the real agents of
the Bankers’ Trust, with two exceptions. One of
them was Daniel Manning, secretary under Grover
Cleveland. He tumbled the bankers' load of silver
and made them take it, when they tried their raid on
i the gold reserve. \et this same gang finally man
aged to nestle in the bosom of the administration
' later on. The other time was when McAdoo made
j loans to the small banks from the Treasury balances
held by the big banks on which they had formerly
i been making untold millions without paying a cent of
interest to the government. And then Mr. McAdoo
kicked the Bankers' trust office desk out of the Treas
- ury building, where it had stood so long to dictate
the monetary policies of the government's financial
system. Later Mr. McAdoo was employed as at
torney for the moving picture trust, and then later he
seemed to have gotten into the game of receiving
special favors from the very same bankers (The Na
tional City, for one); perhaps for his influence in
helping to "skin'' a lot of South Americans, doubtless
many North Americans as well—because McAdoo's
name put a fine flavor to bonds and made them sell
well even if they were worthless.
The people ought to know by this time that the
money-bags man is the fellow that betrays, bankrupts,
and destroys. Mr. Roosevelt, watch them. They
are dead against your NRA, because they know it
helps the populace and lowers their dividends.
The Kaiser and Hitler
The Kaiser's "Me and God" expressions are being
paralleled by Hitler's claim that “If any nation is en
titled to Divine help, it is Germany.
He further states that the world does not under- ,
stand Germany. Well, that is certainly true. No- I
body has ever understood why any nation of highly
civilized people should be so base as to tread on the
rights and shoot down the Belgian people and cause
the death of 10,000,000 people of the world. No
body undertands why she did that, yet everybody
knows she did it, and that is just why they refuse to i
trust her now.
It is of course the general opinion that Geramny's
real purpose was to kill, slay, and cut her way south
easterly to the Indian Ocean and establish herself as
a world empire, to which she proposed to make all
nations bow the knee. Being whipped and failing in
her purpose, she is now squealing.
Many people thought the Allies should have gone
further when they crossed the Rhine.
The Value of Cooperation
The Government is now lending 1 cent per pound
more on cotton than the New York market pays for ]
an outright sale.
The value of cooperation by farmers is fully dem
i onstrated by the fact that our farmers, by the forma
tion of cooperative associations—which the govern
ment recognizes as essential to the success of agricul
ture—are now receiving 1 cent per pound more than
the market price.
When farmers began the formation of cooperatives,
the fight was so strong against them by the price
manipulators, who played both the producers and con
sumers, that it was hard sledding, and only a few
farmers ventured far enough to attempt to organize.
Now, happily, nearly every farmer and business man
has sense enough to know the value it offers and is
willing to join his neighbors in an effort to save their
business from merciless slighter by the grafters.
Mr. Ford Should Sign
Mr. Ford should sign the NRA, although he has
done more for labor than any other large-scale em
ployer in the world and has sold as many dollars’
worth of service during the past quarter of a century
as any other man. Still, he needs to give full coop
eration to the public program of the nation.
It seems his principal objection to signing is be
cause he will have to bow to the House of Morgan
which is the fountain head of his competitors, to the
j extent of having his books opened for inspection, and
‘l of course, it is an open secret that Morgan is noted
for crushing his competitors.
There is probably some merit in Mr. Ford’s stand,
but the National Industrial Recovery Act is the law
of the land, and no man can be a good citizen unless
he obeys the law.
How NOT To Pay Taxes
No man should pay his taxes by buying liquor.
The man who advocates poor men paying their
taxes by buying taxed liquor cannot be wise, accord
ing to our estimate of values. In fact, paying taxes
by buying liquor is the most expensive method of pay
ing taxes that can be devised.
If a man owes a dollar tax and spends 25 cents on
his taxes and then spends the 75 cents left for some
useful article for himself, his wife, or children, every
reasonable man will say that he is wiser than the man
w'ho spends his dollar for whisky, of which 25 cents
goes into liquor tax, and the balance, 75 cents, goes
to the whisky manufacturer and seller.
The argument for paying taxes by buying and drink
ing liquor is so stpuid that all thinking people should
resent it.
THE LETTER-BOX
The time is drawing near; to be j
accurate. November 7th; tor men and j
women to cast tlicit* votes for or I
against the repeal ot the 18th amend
ment to our national constitution.
The mere fact within itself accepting!
the repeal as a foregone conclusion i
does not release the average citizen1
of the obligations he still owes so-1
ciety in devising means and organiza-j
tion to meet that which is to follow
to protect society in its moral and^
social uplift, so essential to the wel
fare of our people.
After the repeal of the 18th amend
ment, which cannot he reasonably ex
pected before some time in December,'
all laws placed on our statute books
in the past for the regulation or its'
manufacture, sale, etc., will instantly
be revived and this brings to us a
problem, and one we are faced with
a duty in which leadership in devis
ing laws regulating its distribution
and control is of vital importance and
needs the best thought, and the mar
shalling of the moral forces of our
state to combat the liquor interests,
who are looking forward to the time
when they can reap profits from its
'sale.
Looking back over the penoa of
years since 1908, when North Carolina
voted to discontinue the manufacture
and sale of it within its borders and
tracing this period up to the present,
with supplemental legislation from
time to time, all tending to lessen and
discourage its use as a beverage, we
should feel a deep sense of personal
pride in our success in promoting
temperance.
That the 18th amendment, when re
! pealed, will present to us the liquor
I question again in an acute form
1 should give us the incentive in select
ing our legislators who are to frame
j our laws governing its distribution
and use only such men who will con
tinue the policy we followed prior
LESS CLEARING
LAND AND MORE
TREE PLANTING
Million And Half Acres of
Cleared Land Now
Idle in State
Less land clearing and more tree
planting are two necessary needs in
North Carolina at this time. The one
and one-half million acres of land
cleared hut idle has been one of the
sore spots of the state’s agriculture
for the past ten years.
"We already have one and one-half
million acres of cleared, idle land in
the >tate, nd now with the govern
mental crop adjustment programs un
to the adoption ot the 18th amend
ment. We need have no fear for the
future it we do this, and at the same
time mold a sentiment among our
people for the stamping out of boot
leggers and illicit distilling, the one
weakness that has -contributed to the
breaking down of success and forced
us to look tor a better remedy.
A. R. DUPREE, Sr.
der way another million acres will be j
added to this amount of idle and tin- j
profitable land," says R. W. Graeber, |
extension t’ore>ter at State College.!
"It is my opinion that idle acres are :
just as harmful to the nation as idle
laborers. The evil result-* are seen in
erosion, loss of mineral plant foods
and*humus loss of bacterial life in the
soil and other bad effects. Such lands
lose their productive power and will
take a generation to rehabilitate them/
Mr. Graeber warns against clearing
any more land under any circum
stances ami urges that North Carolina
•citizens become forest-minded, recog
nizing tree> as growing things. In
this way the problem of land use will
be partially solved. Trees will accu
mulate wealth and* usale wood prod
ucts.
"In North Carolina we have on the
average more than 15,000 acres of idle
crop land per county,” he says. "Many
of the Piedmont counties have 20,000
to 30,000 acres in this class. Randolph
leads in total acres of idle crop land
with Davidson and Guilford counties
following in close order.”
Yet in the old flue-cured tobacco
licit of the Piedmont, farmers are con
tinuing to clear more land to get fresh
soil for tobacco. Good growers are
Method of Obtaining Loan
On Cotton Is Explained
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Following is the program for a
farmer to get 10 cents a pound loan
on his cotton from the government:
First, the grower must own the cot
ton. The next step is to store the cot
ton i' an accepted warehouse. By ac
cepted warehouse is meant one that
is licensed under the state or federal
laws or one that is approved by the
lending agency of the Reconstruction
Finance Corporation. The warehouse
receipt is then taken to the local bank,
where a note for the loan and other
necessary papers are signed. These
papers are turned over to the bank
which may advance the 10-cent loan.
Free Circular on Killing
And Curing Meat Ready
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Extension Circular No. .14, on “Kill
ing and Curing Meat on the Farm,”
is now ready for distribution and
■copies may be obtained by writing
the Division of Publications, State
College, Raleigh.
finding that this is not necessary,
Graeber says.
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“FLAMING GUNS” with TOM MIX
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Monday - Tuesday—
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