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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March 3, 1879,
Friday, September 4, 1936
The Lifeblood of Modern Industry
Petroleum has became the lifeblood of modern in
dustry. It is driving 26,000,000 automobile, thous
ands of steamers, and all the airplanes. These will
all be stilled and many industries will stand idle
when the earth ceases to give up its oil.
And oil is the largest taxpayer in the world. Its
annual bill is $ 1,125,246,826 for Federal, State, and
local taxes. It is indeed remarkable how low the
price is. The price has dropped from 32 cents in
1920 to 12.90 in 1936—not counting the taxes. Com
pare this price with those of Europe. We find
in Italy the price is 80 cents per gallon; Germany,
S3 cents per gallon; France, 52 1-4 cents; England,
30 3-4 cents; In the United States it is 18.82, in
cluding the tax.
The progress made in the development of gasoline
has kept pace with that in teh field of electricity and
it produces 1,732,000,000 horsepower, 85 per cent of
which is used to operate motor vehicles. In addition,
232,000,000 horsepower are used in farm tractors and
in motors to create electric power.
The Republican Onslaught
The old guard Republicans are trying to scare the
Democrats and the public by telling them of the
grave dangers just ahead. They say that Roosevelt
is going to ruin the country, when they well know
there is no truth in the story.
Business is good and rapidly growing better. The
mills are crowded with orders; practically everybody
is able to pay income tax and pay all their others
taxes and interest, as well as some on the principal.
The cry that we will never be able to pay the pub
lic debt we have contracted to save our people from
starvation is entirely untrue. We can easily pay it
out of the money that has been gouged out of the
working man and the farmer during former admin
istrations and have money left.
Beware of false gods. Remember the days when
you could not pay your way and get enough to eat,
while Mr. Morgan was making millions. As long as
the Mellons, DuPonts, and Morgans were making
millions the Republicans were all satisfied; but just
as soon as general prosperity was brought about they
claim everything went wrong.
Remember that the government is better able to
owe money than you are; and with the Republicans
in power nationally, both you and your government
will be in debt.
Landon Changes His Tune
It would seem that Governor Landon is very much
embarrassed whenever he faces his former praise of
President Roosevelt and his New Deal. Now, to
please his big campaign backers, he has to complete
ly change his former attitude and turn his praise into
abuse.
Now which shall we believe? The Landon who
praised Roosevelt and the New Deal when the banks
were saved, the people enabled to make enough money
to pay taxes and interest, buy automobiles, farm and
build homes; or shall we believe the Landon who
-peaks of the glory of the Hoover administration,
with its general wholesale failures of the duties of
government under the domination of the money glut
tons?
You would do well to remember the Hoover fail
ures, caused by the dictatorship of the money power;
and rally to the President who gave you good prices
and made better business for the country at large.
VYhat the money power dislikes about Roosevelt is
that he will not permit them to fix the prices on your
cotton and tobacco, as well as all other commodities
and labor. Do not be deceived.
Why “They Hate Roosevelt”
Woodrow Wilson once said that no one could hate
a man he knew. Real hatred, he added, could be felt
only for the unknown. If this be true, it is difficult
to understand the gospel of hatred that has been
-pread over the land by President Roosevelt's oppon
ents. Surely, the American people know him and his
human qualities.
Discusisng the psychology of those who proclaim
that they “hate Roosevelt,” the editor of the St. Pet
ersburg (Fla.) Times wrote recently that is probably
far from the truth to describe the character of the
political assaults on President Roosevelt as expres
sions of “hatred.” They are, in his opinion, rather
expressions of resentment.
“It would be quite impossible for reasoning peo
ple,” he wrote, “to ‘hate’ a man of President Roose
velt's kindly character and unquestionably high Amer
ican and humanitarian ideals. But nothing could be
more certain than that any such man in the White
House, who would undertake to translate the highest
humanitarian ideals into legislative and administra
tive policies, would incur the bitterest resentment of
all specially privileged interests, and that is exactly
what President Roosevelt has earned and is now being
subjected to.
"Of course, no one hates' Franklin D. Roosevelt,
but many persons high in business, financial ,and po
litical realms so desperately resent his success in plac
ing the country back on the road to economic recov
ery, in spite of them, that the effect upon their ac
tions is not materially different from actual hatred.
"Undeniably, certain manufacturers who have seen
their earnings and profits grow by leaps and bounds
under the stimulus of the Roosevelt New Deal resent
his success to a degree almost indistinguishable from
hatred.
"Certainly some bankers, who have lost the fear of
runs under the protection of the deposit guarantee
system, are now in a mood of resentment. So are
some capitalists the New Deal has enabled to earn
sure dividends on guaranteed mortgages. Corpora
tion executives, who have seen their dividends rise to
substantial levels from the deficits of a few years ago,
now have it in for him and would destroy him politi
cally if they could. That applies to many of them.
“Who can explain this paradox? Why do those
benefited most by the New Deal of President Roose
velt assume the nearest to an attitude of hatred to
ward him? Why would they apparently rather lose
money under an archaic system than make money un
der new conditions, based on equal rights and oppor
tunities to all?
“But, isn't that the answer? The fact that Presi
dent Roosevelt denies the proprietary rights of spec
ial interests and stands militantly for equal rights and
opportunities for all. Is there anything really mys
terious about the psychology of the political 'hatred'
the political reactionaries so copiously entertain for
President Roosevelt?”
Ready for Dictation
Just as we expected of Candidate Landon. He
heartily endorsed the New Deal in numerous speeches
before he became an active candidate for the presi
dency. Then, tor a while, he fiddled along between
hut and cold, finally coming over into Pennsylvania,
where they have the money to buy up voters and their
independence. He entered into a secret conclave
with Joseph R. Grundy, the big manufacturing boss
of Pennsylvania, and Joseph N. Pew. the millionaire
oil magnate, and their henchmen. When they got
through with Mr. Landon, he seemed to have been
pretty well hand-broken and maintained a complete
silence as to his attitude toward labor. He did say
that industry should be free from all government re
straint, which means that labor will have no show
ing against industry except to receive and accept such
crumbs as may be thrown to them.
So Mr. Landon has lost his identity as a statesman
and evidently stands ready to take dictation, just as
did President Harding, President Coolidge, and Pres
ident Hoover.
We want no more presidents as proxies for big in
terests. Be wise—vote for Roosevelt.
The Search for Happiness
We do not take time to travel life’s highway sob
erly and quietly. If we should, we would find much
joy in life that we pass by and never see.
We seem to have no time for anything except mak
ing money. We get none of the sweet aroma from
the wild flowers by the wayside; we can get only a
passing glimpse of the beautiful growing crops in
the fields: and we have no time for anything beau
tiful. It is only the mad onrush that connects time
and eternity, and all is past and gone.
New methods and new opportunities seem to have
crazed us. Things are so unlike they were in days
past, when we had to depend on the slower methods
of transportation and found more time for our so
cial duties than we do now—when we have little time
for anything except dancing and playing cards. We
find no time to visit the sick, little time to bury the
dead. Very few of us have the time to entertain the
preacher or our friends. And while we seem to be
in a continual search for pleasure, we never seem to
find it; and doubtless would not understand it if we
met it.
We seem to have changed worlds in these latter
days; physical conditions having made such great
changes in our lives.
The Comptroller’s Job
Nashville Graphic
According to observers in Washington, Congress
man Lindsay Warren is President Roosevelt’s first
choice for the highly coveted position of Comptroller
General of the United States. Appointment to such
a position of power will be a distinct honor for the
North Carolina solon and one that should arouse pride
in him from his constituents.
On the contrary, the news that Roosevelt will un
doubtedly extend the position, to Warren has aroused
a feeling of regret in his constituents. Possibly it is
natural.
Congressman Warern has been renominated to his
present office for six terms and during that time he
has rendered a valuable service to his district. The
regret arises not because the President sets such a
high value on the Congressman’s ability but because
the district will lose its trusted servant.
We are inclined to experience the same reaction.
If Congressman Warren accepts the Comptroller’s
office, his district must fight it out to select his suc
cessor. Congressmen with Warren’s ability are not
easy to find and the searching would probably end
in a lot of bitterness.
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| HINTS FOR
HOMEMAKERS
^ By Miss ORA E. FINCH, Home
| Service Director Virginia Electric
And Power Company
When a body-building food needs
to be added to the menu, make the
easily prepared “simple souffle’
given here.
6 slices bread,
1-2 lb. cheese, sliced or grated,
2 eggs,
1 cup milk,
1-2 tsp. salt,
1-8 tsp. pepper.
Put two slices bread in bottom of
greased casserole. Cover with 1-4
lb. cheese. Place on this two slices
of bread, cover with remainder of
chees. Top with two slices butter
ed bread. Beat eggs; add milk, salt,
and pepper. Pour over cheese and
bread. Bake in slow oven (300 de
grees) about 30 minutes. Serve
immediately.
Orange Ice Box Cake
This tempting dessert serves
eight people. j
1 Tbsp. of unflavored gelatine.
2 Tbsp. cold water,
2 cups milk, or 1 cup of evapor
ated milk diluted with 1 cup of
water.
2 Tbsp. cornstarch.
1 cup sugar.
2 eggs,
3-4 cup orange juice,
1 Tsp. grated orange rind.
2 dozen lady fingers or sponge
cake cut into strips.
Soften the gelatine in cold water.
Scald milk in double boiler. Mix
cornstarch and sugar. Add to hot
milk. Cook 10 minutes, stirring un
til it thickens. Add beaten eggs,
and cook 3 minutes, stirring con
stantly. Remove from fire and add
softened gelatine, orange juice and
rind. Line a mold with lady fing
ers, then fill with alternate layers
of cooked mixture and lady fingers.
Have a layer of lady fingers on top.
Chill in refrigerator for several
hours or overnight. Serve with
whipped cream. Orange slices make
an attractive garnish.
Rigth Fertilization
Of Tobacco Crop Is
Greatly Important
Deficiencies In Fertilizers
And Soil Cause Serious
Drawback To Crop
Since tobacco is grown for its
leaves, soil and fertilizer deficien
cies are much more serious with
this crop than with most of the
other cash crops grown in North
Carolina.
Such deficiencies hav,e a more
pronounced effect upon the leaves
of a plant than they do upon its
seeds, fruit, or other parts, said
C. B. Williams, head of the agro
nomy department at State College.
For this reason, he continued,
the agronomy workers urge farm
ers to give special attention to the
proper methods of fertilizing their
tobacco fields.
Many of the fields are deficient
in plant nutrients as a result of the
use of low-grade fertilizer, Profes
sor Williams pointed out, and the
tobacco crop is showing the effects
It is particularly important that
next year each field be fertilized
with a mixture that will provide all
the plant nutrients in which its soil
is deficient, he declared.
Tobacco fertilizer recommenda
tions for 1937, as prepared by a
committee of agronomist from the
U. S. Department of Agriculture
and the State agricultural colleges
of Virginia, the Carolinas, and
Georgia, are now available to ail
tobacco growers.
N. C. Agricultural Experiment Sta
published in pamphlet form by the
The recommendations have been
tion. Copies of the pamphlet,
known as agarnomy circular No.
101, may be obtained free from
Professor Williams, Raleigh, N. C.
The pamphlet gives tre recom
mendations for various types of to
bacco on different North Carolina
soils.
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Makes $340 in Hog
Feed Demonstration
A hog-feeding demonstration con
ducted by N. J. Miller, Merry Hill,
route 1, in Bertie County, has given
him a profit of $340.51 for his labor
after deducting costs of all feed con
sumed, reports County Agent B. E.
Grant.
Twenty-two pigs were included in
the demonstration, with a total
weight of 944 pounds when the feed
ing period began. When sold the
pigs weighed 4,552 pounds, or a gain
of 3,558 pounds. This gain was put
on at a cost of $130.50, or an aver
age of 3.62 cents a pound. The aver
age selling price for the pigs was
$10.35 per hundred, says Grant.
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L. L. Dozier, of Currituck Coun
ty, planted pure-bred watermelon
seed i na two-acre plot. He got an
average of more than two U. S. No.
1 melons from each hill, the melons
weighing from 28 to 40 pounds
each.
MEN WANTED FOR RAWLEIGH
routes of 800 families. Reliable
hustler should start earning $25
weekly and increase rapidly. Write
today. Rawleigh’s, Dept. NCI-173-S
Richmond, Va. s4 4t
DR. V. H. MEWBORN
Optometrist
Plymouth office at Liverman Drug
Co. Dates changed to Thursday
after first and third Sundays of each
month.
Next visits: Thursday, September
10 and Thursday, September 24.
Eyes Examined - Glasses Fitted
Rocky Mount Every Friday
Tarboro Every Saturday
NOTICE
North Carolina, Washington Coun
ty. Superior Court.
The Federal Land Bank vs. W. A.
Hilliard Et Als
The defendant, Chelcy Peele, alias
Chelcy Goddard, widow of W. A.
Hilliard, deceased, and the heirs of
said W. A. Hilliard, if any there be,
will take notice that an action en
titled as above has been commenced
in the superior court of Washing
ton County, North Carolina, to fore
close a mortgage executed by the
said W. A. Hilliard and Chelcy Hil
liard to the Federal Land Bank of
Columbia, July 17, 1922, in the sum
of nine hundred dollars ($900.00),
tand of record in Washington Coun
‘ty, covering a tract of land in Plym
outh Township, Washington Coun
ty, containing seventy-six (76) acres
and adjoining the Fate Satter
thwaite land, the land of Jim Gee,
and being the same land conveyed
to W. A. Hilliard by C. H. Godwin,
and the said defendants and heirs
of W. A. Hilliard will further take
notice that they are required to ap
pear at the office of the Clerk of the
Superior Court of said county, in
the courthouse in Plymouth, N. C.,
within thirty (30) days from and
after the 18th day of September,
1936, and answer or demur to the
complaint of the plaintiff in said ac
tion, or the plaintiff will apply to
the court for the relief demanded
in said complaint.
This the 24th day of August, 1936.
C. V. W. AUSBON,
Clerk Superior Court, of
a28 4t Washington County, N.C.
TRUTSEE’S SALE
Under and by virtue of the power
of sale contained in a certain deed
of trust from Sallie M. Swain and
husband, Jack Swain, or J. L. Swain,
to the undersigned trustee, dated
March 7, 1933, and recorded in Wash
ington County Registry in book 110,
page 135, default having been made
in the payment of the indebtedness
thereby secured, and upon demand
of the holder of the notes evidencing
the said indebtedness, the under
signed trustee will offer for sale, at
public auction, for cash, at the court
house door of Washington County
in the town of Plymouth at 12 o’
clock noon, on Monday, September
21, 1936, the following described real
estate:
. “Lying and being in the town of
Plymouth, Washington County,
North Carolina, and described as
follows:
Bounded on the north by the lot
of Ellen W. McCallum et als, on the
east by the lot of United Commer
cial Bank, on the south by the lot
of D O. Brinkley heirs, and on the
west by state highway No. 90, being
the same lot of land this day con
veyed to said Sallie M. Swain by
Ellen W. McCallum and husband,
Clyde McCallum, et als, this con
veyance being given to secure the
purchase price.”
The terms of sale will be cash,
and the successful bidder will be re
quired to deposit not less than 10
per cent of the amount bid as a
guarantee of good faith and to guar
antee compliance pending confirma
tion of the sale, same to be forfeit
ed upon non-compliance.
This the 21st day of August, 1936
E. LEIGH WINSLOW,
a28 4t Trustee.
Carl L. Bailey, attorney.
NOTICE: SALE OF REAL ESTATE
Under and by virtue of the au
thority conferred upon the under
signed as trustee in that certain
deed of trust executed by E. D.
Staley, (widower) under date of
September 31, 1935, same being re
corded in public registry of Wash
ington County, N. C., in book 110,
page 589; default having been made
in the payments of the indebted
ness therein secured. I will, on Mon
day. September 14, 1936, at 12 o’
clock noon before the courthouse
door in Plymouth, N. C., offer for
sale to the highest bidder for cash
the following described tracts of
land:
First tract: Beginning on the
north side of the road leading by
Friley Norman’s at a post or tree
within ten feet of a ditch known as
the Pole Bridge ditch, thence south
75 degrees east 15 poles along the
north side of said road, south 48 de
grees east 6 poles, south 50 degrees
east, 6 poles along the north side
of said road to opposite Friley Nor
man’s line; thence north 38 degrees
east, to White corner, B. B. Phelps
and Friley Norman’s corner, thence
38 degrees east, 32 poles along
Friley Norman’s line to the south
side of the swamp to a white laurel
corner; thence north 36 degrees
west 13 poles along the swamp to a
gum in William Smith line; thence
south 73 degrees west 40 poles along
Smith’s line to a black gum corner
in Smith’s and B. B. Phelps line
within ten feet of said ditch, thence
south 18 degrees west 17 poles on
the last side of said ditch so as to
be ten feet from said ditch on the
last to the first station. Containing
7 1-2 acres.
Second tract: Beginning at the
Pole Bridge thence running up the
Pole ditch in 6 feet to the east of
the same 15 1-2 poles to new ditch
cornering at poplar. Thence run
ning down new ditch 6 feet to the
west 12 5-22 poles to Friley Nor
man’s line (dec’d.) cornering at a
bunch of white laurels thence west
wardly down Friley Norman’s line
8 poles to first station containing ten
(10) acres, more or less. For fur
ther description see deeds in Deed
Book 34, page 595 and 596, also
Book 53, Page 436, Registrar of
Deeds office Washington County, to
John Green all our interest in that
tract of land known as the Nercy
tract. Bounded on the north by the
lands of E. R. Spruill on the east
by the above described lands on the
south by the lands of W. M. Staley.
It being the same land conveyed by
Elwood Norman and wife to E. D.
Staley.
Third tract: Bounded on the
north by the public road, on the east
by J. S. Tarkenton heirs, on the
South by Frank Tarkenton, and on
the West by Solomon Dunbar heirs.
Containing 20 and 3-4 acres, more or
less. This day conveyed by S. M.
Combs to E. D. Staley.
A deposit of 10 percent will be
required to be deposited with the
Clerk Court.
This notice dated and posted this
12th day of August, 1936.
D. G. COMBS,
a-14 4t Trustee.
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Plan Now to Attend the
Williamston Fair
September 28—October 3
SOMETHING DIFFERENT EVERY DAY
Children admitted free to grounds and grand
stand Tuesday of Fair Week until 4:30 P. M.
Cetlin and Wilson Shows
20 SHOWS — 15 RIDES
Harness Racing Wednesday, Thursday, Friday
Professional Auto Races Saturday Afternoon
DAZZLING REVUE EACH NIGHT
FIREWORKS EVERY NIGHT
Only Legitimate Midway Concessions Allowed
Remember the Dates-Sept. 28-Oct. 3
WILLIAMSTON, N. C.
One of Carolina’s Better Local Fairs
HARVEY WALKER, MANAGER
Not the Largest—But None Better
ROBERSONYILLE
TOBACCO MARKET
On Opening Day
Sold 171,794 Pounds
AVERAGED $25.95
Our Warehousemen Know Tobacco and Back
Up Their Judgment
Sell Your Tobacco With These Warehouses:
Red Front
Warehouse
Jim Gray & Charles Gray
PROPRIETORS
Alton Rogers, Auctioneer
“Give Your Old Friends a Trial”
Central
Warehouse
Edgar Johnson - Joe Moye
PROPRIETORS
“Get the High Dollar Here”
Adkins &. Bailey Warehouse
ADKINS, LITTLE & ADKINS
“You Can’t Do Better—You Could Do Worse”