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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 Ont year . -..$1.50 Six months . -.- ” Outside of Above Counties One year . $2.00 Six months ...-----.- 1*®® (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, May 3, 1935 A Friend of the Farmer Congressman Lindsay Warren did more than ably support the administration’s cotton processing tax policy in his recent appearance on the floor of the House of Representatives; he established himself be yond all doubt as a friend of the farmer. In his bril liant defense of the tax exacted of the mills, Mr. Warren referred to it as a ‘‘simple act of justice.” While the processing tax might be working a hard ship on the textile manufacturer, it is about time that some one realized the farmer cannot continue to pro duce basic commodities below the cost of production for ever and ever that some manufacturer or dealer might show a profit. The farmer is not receiving too much for his cotton, and since he is not then it is up to the manufacturer to solve the problem the process ing tax is said to have created. Administering the Relief Program -® Much criticism, some casual and some rather se vere, has been directed against the administrators of the nation's relief program. That the administrators have erred is certain; that they have made more errors in the handling of the huge task than many of those who have been advancing all the criticism would have made in handling the work is not so certain. The possibility of the country's humane relief program going on the rocks rests not in the hands of the ad ministrators or in the hands of those who do most or all the criticising, but the success or failure of the plan rests with the relief subjects themselves. If the millions of able-bodied men, now unemploy ed, accept the succor offered them with the attitude that it is due them, that even then they are not get- ^ ting their just share of the billions of dollars, and if they make no effort of their own volition to better their own conditions, then the relief administrators can pump the treasury of the L’nited States dry and con- : ditions will be worse at the end than when aid wTas i first offered to a needy people. Probably there was some justification for the un employed in the Wilmington area of this State to re fuse work in the berry fields. We don’t know all the facts, but it is dead certain that the unemployed now on the relief rolls, in too many cases, will refuse work and depend on relief hand-outs rather than exert their laxy muscles in helping this country fight its way out of a great depression. Instead of attempting to determine how much of each dollar is spent in administering one dollar's worth of relief, the government apparently would do better if it placed more capable men in the field to determine who is and who isn’t deserving of aid and remove those who prefer places on the relief rolls rather than exert themselves when employment is offered them. The millions who are just one-half leap away from the relief list, and who are struggling day in and day out to earn their own way in this world, don’t deny the right of the deserving needy to food and clothing, but they are giving some serious concern to a situation where the man who tries to do fares far worse than the man who makes no effort to do anything but boast of his high standing in the eyes of the government. The unemployed will, in the end, probably find it ad visable to accept whatever work offered them. It is bad enough for the employer to put up with sorry, trifling labor, but when that class of workers refuse even to strike the first lick, one can place the whole relief business down as a failure. The relief program was not designed to carry men on and on; it was plan ned to created jobs for the unemployed. Do Not Borrow Too Much Borrowers too often have a tendency to step off on the wrong foot. Aplicants for seed loans this year are in most cases asking for more money this year than they did last. It would seem that when people have a good year and make money and to spare, they would not need nor want as much the following year. Yet the contrary seems to be the case. Borrowing when borrowing is easy—and in many cases, simply because it is easy—has probably caused more bankruptcies than any other one thing. The foundation of wealth is generally laid when business is “tight.” Our trouble is that we spend all of our surplus, whether wisely or not. We forget that rain descends, droughts come, storms beat, and crops fail, or that prices go lower. We try to fool ourselves by borrowing on the assumption that we will have good crops and high prices every year, w’hich just will not work. If we would be happy and prosperous, and meet everybody with a clear conscience, we had better not borrow too much. The Power of Liquor Whisky is still holding the spotlight in our state legislature, according to opinions expressed occasion ally by those who have been looking on. It seems that the liquor folks have been flirting and making love to the big tax-dodgers, and at the same time playing with the anti-sales tax people, all for a few votes. Liquor is just like the devil in many ways. It will promise you all you want and turn around and take all you've got. If the opinion is correct that liquor is holding the legislature in session, then it certainly has„undue in fluence over our legislative bodies. We cannot assert that the rumor carries truth, yet it sounds so much like the history of liquor that we suspect there is something wrong. If the power of liquor and the influence it is exert ing in our own state over politicians could be fully realized, perhaps the people would rise in indignation and strike with a vengeance. When it comes to the DuPonts and Raskobs, through their agents, supply ing liquor in easy reach of legislators to build friend ships, then the rights of the people are in danger. A Baffling Situation The closing of several colored schools in this coun ty recently because of large attendance decreases presents a baffling situation. The children are taken from school and placed in the fields to do manual work while millions of able-bodied men remain idle. Probably the prices of farm commodities are not sufficient to offset the costs of labor hired outside the immediate family. And it might be that the parents place a greater value on the increased profits derived from all home labor than they do the educational ad vantages offered their children in the schools. The Second and Third Parties “Farm Holiday Group Sends Forth Call to Confer ence To Formulate Third Party", read a newspaper headline. But who would say there is or has been a second party in recent months. The second party and the third party, should one materialize, will fare only ordinary when facing a five billion dollar fort just constructed by the first party. Trading at Home -$— Bertie Ledger-Advance There are any number of people living in this com munity who laugh at the idea that it is best to buy at home. They take the position that it does not matter where they spend their money if they get their mon ey's worth. They subscribe to the doctrine that the only obligation they owe the home town is to get what they can out of it. Our idea of trading at home does not include buying goods from merchants who attempt exorbitant profits. It does not necessitate the acceptance of worn, dirty or bedraggled goods from old time mer chants who think that it is up to the community to keep them in business. It only means giving the lo cal merchant a chance and then, to buy if he can rea sonably meet other compettiion. The local merchants, on their side, have duties in regard to this trade-at-home idea. They must keep the buyer informed as to what they have to sell. They must stock new goods. They must be accommodating and render real service to the purchaser. They must refuse to push shoddy goods, or to sell to a customer something that is apt to be unprofitable. In short, they must maintain, at all times, the confidence of the community. The average citizen should, we take it, have pleas ure in increasing the total volume of local business. Out of this sum is taken the prosperity of all of us. The larger it is the bigger the average share. Every citizen that spends his dollars at home helps that much in making the business of the community big ger. He helps the town expand, put on new growth and support new enterprises. Not Wholly Consistent Elkin Tribune Governor Talmadge, of Georgia, who has developed into one of the most fiery critics of the Federal relief administration, and whose many attacks was climaxed j recently with the direct personal charge that President , Roosevelt is “ a radical of the extreme form,” is wide I open to the charge of inconsistency. The governor, stripped of any connection with fed eral relief work in Georgia by an order of Administra tor Harry Hopkins, has become himself a beneficiary of the FERA. It appears that Mrs. Talmadge con vinced the authorities at Washington that the Gov ernor’s mansion, located in one of Atlanta’s most ex clusive residential sections, needed improvements to the extent of nearly eleven thousand dollars, to be spent in beautifying the grounds and drives. Under the rules of the emergency relief adminstration the prop erty was eligible for improvement, and in spite of the governor’s recent criticism of the relief administra tion, the necessary funds were allocated for this pur pose. Will Rogers makes the point that even among the large and growing group of those who deplore the “government’s orgy of spending” there is always a willingness to “get mine while the getting is good.” Governor Talmadge, who calls the government’s re lief program a “wet nurse policy” so far hasn’t ve toed his wife’s effort to tidy up the front yard and level the driveway for easier riding of the governor’s carriage, with “wet nurse money” that will also go to laborers who have been dependent upon direct relief funds for the necessities of life. Governor Talmadge is joining with Huey Long in attacking the administration, and both seem to have a stranglehold on the people of their respective states, which to outsiders seems unexplainable except on the theory that voters are inclined to follow any sort of bell-wether that is sufficiently noisome and mouthy. PLEASANT GROVE -$ Mrs. Sidney Sitterson, of Rocky Mount, is spending some time with Mrs. W. A. Swain. Mr. and Mrs. Fred Cliesson and chd dren, of Willianiston, were the guests of Mr. and Mrs. I.. I). Lamm Sunday. Mr. and Mrs. Marshall Spruill, Miss Deanie Spruill, and Henderson Dav enport were in Willianiston Sunday. Clinton Tarkenton has returned to Oak Ridge, after spending the Easter holidays with his parents, Mr. and Mrs. J. C. Tarkenton. Rev. Luther Ambrose, of Roper, Mr. and Mrs. Wilson Cliesson, and Na tTian Whitfield, of Norfolk, were the guests of Mr. and Mrs. George Whit field Sunday. Miss Myrtle Tarkenton has returned to Norfolk after spending several days with her sister, Miss Nellie d arkett ton. Miss Lula Ange left recently for Norfolk after visilng her mother, Mrs. Sidney Herrington. EXECUTOR'S NOTICE Having this day qualified as the ex ecutor of the estate of the late Asa Tarkenton. I hereby give notice to all persons indebted to the said estate to make immediate settlement, and those holding claims against the said estate must present them to the undersigned at Route one, Roper, N. C\, within 12 months from the date of this notice, or it will be pleaded in bar of their re cover}'. This the 13th day of April. 1935. F. C. TARKENTON, Executor of the Estate of Asa lar kenton. a!9 fit NOTICE OF LAND SALE L'nder and by virtue of power of sale contained in a deed of trust front Clarence A. Faucette, a single ntan, dated February 27, 1918, and record ed in book 73, at page 148, of Wash ington County Registry, default hav ing been made in the payment of the indebtedness thereby secured and the holder thereof having requested me to do so, I will, on Wednesday, May 8, 1935, at 12 o’clock noon, offer for sale at the courthouse door of Wash ington County to the highest bidder, for cash, the following described real estate, subject to prior liens: That certain tract or parcel of land the John L. Roper Lumber Co., and the Bankers Trust Co., of New York, County line and on the north side of Pungo River and the east side of the N. & S. Railroad line and within a few hundred yards south of Wenona Sta tion and more particularly described as follows: Beginning on the east side of the right of way of the N. & S. Railroad Co., 2640 feet north of the center of the Pungo River Drainage Canal, where it crosess the N. & S. Railroad tract thence along the said N. & S. Railroad right of way north 25 deg. and 35 min. east 2640 feet; thence south 64 deg. and 25 min. east 2640 feet; thence south 25 deg. and 35 min. west 2640 feet; thence north 64 deg. and 25 min. west 2640 feet; to the point of beginning, containing 160 acres. Being the same land described in a contract between the John L. Roper Lumber Co., and A. E. Rice, dated May 18, 1912, recorded in book 62, page 195, Register’s office of Wash ngton County and later conveyed by mortgagee, to Jennie Rice, wife of .A. E. Rice, under the said contract afore said, the said A. E. Rice having died leaving a will recorded in the clerk of superior court’s office of Washington County in which he devised all of his property to his wife, Jennie Rice, and conveyed by the said Jennie Rice to the said C. A. Faucette, both of which deeds are dated -, respectively, and recorded in the register’s office of Washington County. It being the same land which the said A. E. Rice resided on at the time of his death. This April 6, 1935. LOUIS BREILING, al2 4tw Trustee. J. D. Paul, Attorney, Washington, N. C. NOTICE OF SALE Under and by virtue of a power of sale embraced in a certain deed of trust made by Hattie Snell Whitehurst and others to the undersigned, Win. T. Shannonhouse, trustee, for the pur poses therein set forth, dated the 6th day of December, 1918, and recorded in the office of Register of Deeds of Washington County, in the state of North Carolina, in book 73, page 397, and pursuant to a judgment entered in a certain action entitled, "The Mid vale Realty Company et al, vs. Llew ellyn Whitehurst et al," and duly dock eted in the office of the clerk of the superior court of said county and state, default having been made in the pay ment of the note secured by said deed of trust and the holder of said note having directed the said trustee to sell the land conveyed to him by said deed of trust and hereinafter described, the said trustee will expose at public sale to the highest bidder, for cash, at the courthouse door of Washington Coun ty, NortJi Carolina, on the 25th day of May, 1935, at 12 o’clock noon, the a foresaid land, but in two separate parts or parcels as herein set forth and sub ject to all unpaid taxes against the same, which said land is, as a whole or single tract and known as the Eli Snell land, described as follows: All that certain tract of land con taining 380 acres, more or less, situate, lying and being in Washington Coun ty, in the State of North Carolina, on both sides of the right of way of the Norfolk Southern Railroad Company, about 12 miles from the town of Ply mouth and bounded as follows: on tbe north by the lands of E. W. Snell and Patrick; on the east by the lands of Mrs. Snell; on the south by the lands of Woodley and Formean-Blades Lum ber Company and on the west by the lands of Woodley, it being the same property that descended to the said Hattie Snell Whitehurst, as his sole heir at law, upon the death of her father, Eli Snell, and was conveyed to the said trustee by the deed of trust aforesaid. Pursuant to the direction of said judgment, duly signed by the Honor able N. A. Sinclair, holding the courts of the second judicial district of said state, all that part of the aforesaid tract of land now or formerly belong ing to said Hattie Snell Whitehurst, will be first offered at said sale for tbe payment of the debt secured by said deed of trust and satisfaction of other requirements thereof, which said part of said land first to be sold is, accord ing to a certain deed made between said Hattie Snell Whitehurst and Id. A. Norman for partition of tbe said Eli Snell land above described, bear ing date the 16th day of April, 1919, LEGAL NOTICES and duly recorded in the office of said register of deeds, described as follows: All that part of the said Eli Snell lands lying on the west side of a line beginning at an iron marker on the west side, and IS feet from the cen ter of the road leading to the resi dence of the late Eli Snell, and run ning thence S. 6 degrees 24’ E. 20.74 chains thence N. 80 degrees 4' E. 10.02 chains; thence S. 40 degrees 11 E. 3.11 chains to sweet gum on cast side of road, at angle and north side of ditch across said road: thence S. 1 degree 46’ VV., along said road 42.74 chains to the south side of Norfolk Southern Railroad right of way, to the western boundary of the land of Eli Snell, deceased, and to the J. J. Wood lev and brothers’ land; thence along said land, S, 3 degrees E. 37.85 chains to a pine, corner in said line; thence S. 87 degrees E. 4.02 chains; thence S. 12 degrees 30’ W. 10.04 chains to a black gum corner. Also beginning at an iron marker on the side and 15 feet from the center of the road leading to the residence of the late Eli Snell, and running N. 2* W. 6.83 chains; thence S. 64* 50’ E. 20.15 chains to a water oak; thence S. 10* 35' W. 5 chains to a persimmon tree; and thence N. 67* 32’ \\. 18.60 chains to the beginning, all of which said land, containing 205 acres, more or less, is to he first offered for sale, as aforesaid. But, if the proceeds arising from said sale of the said part of said land, which is last above described, shall not be sufficient to satisfy the said in debtedness, the expense incident to said trust and costs of sale, as con templated by said deed of trust, then and thereupon, in order to fully exe cute the terms of said trust, in accord ance with the judgment of said super ior court, all that part of the said Eli Snell land which was allotted and con veyed to the said H. A. Norman in said deed of partition will be offered at public sale, at said tipie and place, to the highest bidder, for cash, the same being described as follows: All that certain part of the said Eli Snell land situate, lying and being in Washington County, North Carolina, which adjoins on the west the part of said land now' or formerly belonging to said Hattie Snell Whitehurst, con taining 209 acres, more or less, being the same part of said land that was al lotted or conveyed to said H. A. Nor man by a certain deed of partition of the aforesaid land, made between him and said Hattie Snell Whitehurst, dat ed the 16th day of April, 1919, and duly recorded in the office of register of deeds of said county, and being, also a part of said land that w'as con veyed to said trustee by said deed of trust. The said land will be sold in gross and not by the acre; and the highest bidder at saicj_sale will be required to deposit with said trustee or his at ! torney, Mr. Z. V. Norman, ten per centum of amount of his bid as evi dence of good faith, same to be for feited in event he should fail to com ' ply with said bid upon confirmation of such sale. Given under my hand this 12th day of April, 1935. DR. VIRGIL H. MEWBORN Optometrist Next Visits: Bethel, at Rives Drug Store, Mon day, May 20. Robersonville, Robersonville Drug Store, Tuesday, May 21. Williamston, N. C., at Peele’s Jew elry Store, Wednesday, May 22. Plymouth, at Liverman's Drug Store Thursday, May 23. Eyes Examined - Glasses Fitted - At Tarboro Every Friday and Saturday LEGAL NOTICES WM, T. SHANNONHOUSE, *26 4tw Trustee. __^ojgzzAny one desiring further in LEGAL NOTICES formation may apply to Mr. Z. V. Norman, Plymouth, N. C., or to trus tee. Special Low Price on GALVANIZED SCREEN WIRE - SCREEN DOORS AND WINDOWS. Get our prices be fore buying anything in Hardware. Southern Hardware Co. Plymouth s Original Hardware Store Opposite New Theatre Condensed Statement oi Condition of Branch Banking & Trust Company PLYMOUTH, N. C. At the Close of Business March 4, 1935 RESOURCES Cash and Due from Banks $ 3,888,825.57 Obligations of the United States 6,375,747.95 Bonds of Federal Land Banks and the Home Owners’ Loan Corporation 1,806,067.65 North Carolina Bonds 734,581.73 Municipal and Other Marketable Bonds 2,443,052.35 Loans Secured by Marketable Collateral with Cash Values in Excess of Loans 1,368,603.10 $16,616,878.35 Other Loans and Discounts . 1,127,238.34 Other Stocks and Bonds . 23,506.00 Banking Houses, Furniture, Fixtures and Real Estate ... 300,000.00 $18,067,622.69 $ 400,000. 400.000. 300.000. 237,493.86 204,737.89 16,525,390.94 $18,067,622.69 Trust Department Assets Not Included F. D. I. C. The Branch Banking and Trust Company is a Member of the Temporary Federal De posit Insurance Fund, and the Funds of Each Depositor Are Insured Up To $5,000.00 by the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation LIABILITIES Capital Stock—Common . Capital Stock—Preferred . Surplus . Undivided Profits . Reserves .. Deposits . SOUND BANKING AND TRUST SERVICE FOR EASTERN CAROLINA SoS COME TO PLYMOUTH May 11 to 18 Attend the Big CIRCUS & MerchantsExposition Exhibits, Shows, Rides, Free Acts Numerous Other Attractions Program changed Nightly Sponsored by James E. Jethro Po$t American Legion