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THE ROANOKE BEACON And W ashington County News Published Every Friday in Plymouth, Washington County. North Carolina EU8HA PENNIMAN _Editor The Roanoke Beacon was established in 1889, consolidated with the Washington County News in 1929, ,1 with The Sun in 1937. Subscription Rates One year_ $1.50 Six months_ AS (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 Con gress of March 3, 1879. Friday, November 19, 1937 Compulsory Crop Control North Carolina farmers want compulsory crop control. They want it becaus they relaize that unless the acreage of cotton, peanuts, tobacco, and potatoes is stabilized by the government pro duction will continue to fluctuate. And they want it because they know that unless acreage is controled crops, year after year will be so large and the price so low that farmers will be kept near poverty. At present it does not appear that Congress will do very much toward providing any ef ficitve control. There are several reasons for this. One is that compulsory control would probably be un constitutional. Another is the fact that a very large group of people would oppose any control on the general principal that it represents un due government interference with private busi ness and would eventually have the effect of putting agriculture into a bureaucratic straight jacket. Others object to such control because, as spokesmen for industrial sections, they realize that it would mean higher food prices and con sequently lower living standards for factory workers, and, in fact, for very one who buys food instead of producing it. A Logical Objection This last is a very logical objection, but one in which there is a certain irony. For these same representatives of industrial interests have built up a complicated system of tariffs to keep out foreign made shoes, hats, alarm clocks and similar manufactured goods so that with only a limited quantity of Ameri can shoes, hats, and alarm cloks available, the manufacturers can maintain high prices. If the manufacturere can not obtain what he feels is a reasonable price for his product he fires his nloyes and shuts down his factory. A farmer n not do this. And so farmers, except when aided by the government, must sell their crops at the market prices regardless of how low that may be, and have no choice but to buy manufactured goods at two or three or four times as much as they would have to pay if it were not for the tariff. The Roosevelt administration realizes that this is unreasonable and unfair and so we have various government agencies for buying up ex cess peanuts, loaning money on cotton, making soil conservation payments, etc. Thus, the government taxes all of the people in order to raise money to pay farmers so as to make up for a portion of their incomes which its tariff laws permit the manufacturing groups to take away from them. A Crazy Business The whole crazy business boils down to a simple matter of the government helping in dustry steal from agriculture, then taxing in dustry and attempting to give back to agricul ture what industry has stolen from it. The first tariffs began during the Revolution ary war days, when New ork had a tariff to keep out products made in Connecticut and Conne ticut had a law to keep out imports from New York. One of the principal reasons for the estab lishment of the present government was to put an end to these stupid and exasperating res trictions on trade between states. But the new government had hardly begun to function when Alexander Hamilton succeed ed in setting up a new system of tariffs against other nations. Hamilton was the advocate of government for the wealthy and the sworn enemy of rural democracy. A Vicious System Ever since his time the tariff system which he set up has grown more intricate and more vicious. It was, in fact, one of the major causes of the Civil War. Clearly a class mea sure, it serves but one purpose, to promote the interests of one economic group at the expense of another. And now we have the spectacle of another and increasingly complicated system of regu lations growing up to offset the effects of the tariff system. Farmers are right in demanding that Con gress give them the aid which they must have if they ar o live at all decently. But the} ill gain much more in the long run if Secretary of State Cordell Hull is successful in forcing a gradual reduction in tariffs on all of the articles which they must buy. i RAMBLING ABOUT By THE RAMBLER TT DOES NOT LOOK GOOD Plymouth is beginning to feel what some be lieve may be the start of another business de pression. . It all started just three or four weeks ago when the stock market began to drop . . . Investors have lost many millions of dol lars since then and business men are not spend ing any more money than they have to or go ing ahead with new projects as they had in tended. . . So less merchandise is being bought by retail store keepers . . .and less is being shipped . . . Which means less shipping cases are needed. . . And the Plymouth Box & Pannel Company here is working only part time . . . Pay checks are smaller . . . And this is being felt by store keep ers ... It all starts a sort of vicious circle . . . The big boys stop spending ... so the little fel lows have nothing to spend . . . Which cuts into the income of the big boys and in a little while things are at a standstill unless somebody does something . . . Let’s hope they do . . . THAT ROTTEN SMELL For one thing at least, Plymouth can be thankful . . . there is still the rotten smell from the pulp mill . . . And the worse it gets, the more pulp is being made ... As Sam Adler says, “It smells a lot better than rotten busi ness.” . . . The Rambler is hoping it gets smel lier and smellier. . . . WELCOME BACK AGAIN Miss Mary Frances Misenheimer is back from her honeymoon . . . We are glad to have you with us again, Mrs. Wilbur Darden . . . are sure your column was missed by the members of your clubs last week. . . . THE MAYOR WAS RIGHT Heavy rains during the past week . . . washed away part of one of the ramshackle old build ings which Mayor Campbell recently declared should be repaired or removed . . . And that just goes to show that the Mayor was right in warning that unless something is done there may some day be a serious acident caused by the collapse of one of these old structures. . . . MORE MODERATION NEEDED Prohibition was a failure . . . But the “drys” will be starting another crusade before long if something is not done to make repeal more of a sucess. . . There are too many drunken men on the streets in every part of Washington county . . . And the wholesale arrests which are made on Saturday nights week after week are not enough. . . . This is proven by the three serious accidents on the county highways a week ago . . One man dead . . . One facing a long prison term . . . Two boys injured ... all go to prive that there is need for more temperance. . . IT'S A DOGGY TOWN Nearly any time of the day or night there are from two or three to a dozen or more dogs of assorted colors, kinds, and sizes prowling around outside the Beacon office . . . This is more or less typical of the condition throughout the city of Plymouth. . . . Everyone likes a good dog . . . But about half of those in Plymouth . . . and there must be hundreds if they are all counted . . . are mangy, crippled, badly neglected looking . . . Would there be as many if someone had to pay a dog tax on each one? . . . FAREWELL TO PLYMOUTH— Like most newspapers, The Beacon has a rule against the use of poetry . . . due to the fact that it does not usually look well set in narrow col umns . . . But the best of rules must sometimes be broken . . . and the Rambler has been unable to resist the temptation to break this one in or der to pass along to his readers a “Farewell To Plymouth,” by Earl C. Hughes, chief accountant for the James Stewart Company on the pulp mill job here . . . I’ve spent quite some time in your city, And some things I’ve enjoyed here a lot; But, before I depart, I would like to impart Of the things that I found not so “hot.” When first I arrived, ’twas the water, Which all of you folks drink in town. I’ve tried and I’ve tried to drink with you, But, believe me, I can’t put it down. I thought I would go in for swimming, So down to your beach I did hie; But, I thought, when I’m having my coffee I would drink it, and not in it lie. When out on the road in my auto, I happened off Route Sixty-Four; But never again will I stray from that path, For my poor aching bones are still sore. I decided to take in some dancing, But the minute my feet hit the floor, They kept tapping my back and my shoulders And for weeks my poor back remained sore. I stood for these petty annoyances. And the smile on my face never fell; « But the reason I’m leaving you now is On account of the pulp mill smell . Now, I hate to leave your dear city, For I think that you folks here are swell; And I’m sorry to sever our friendship, But damn glad to get rid of that smell. Man of the Week • • • • C. O. Armstrong Nvir Coach Has Built Up Real Football Team Here Cleaton O. Armstrong has been here only a few months, but he is already well known in Washington County as coach of the Plymouth High School football team. However, few who know him as a coach realize that he is at least as interested in philosophy as in ath letic . and hopes soon to add a Ph.D. to his A.B. and M.A. degrees. Philosophy, he does not consider at all the usless. dull subject, which most practical minded Americans think it. Perhaps, in fact, he has found that, as Will Durant says: "There is a pleasure in philosophy, and a lure even in the mirages of metaphysics, which every student feels until the coarse necessities of physical exis tence drag him from the heights of thought into the mart of economic strife again." Dr. Lewis Writes Fourth in Series Of Health Talks Only One Form of Dangerous Germ in Plants; But Cook ing Is Suggested By Dr. S. V. LEWIS Plants are the primary source of practically all our dietary needs. We may consume them directly, or in directly in the form of milk, eggs, or meat from animals which have been eating plants. Plant foods may convey such di seases as typhoid fever, dysentry, and cholera. This occurs from the use of bad soil and infected water from an unsafe source of supply as may found in some irrigation areas where toilets are constructed over irriga tion ditches. All vegetables eaten raw should be well washed before eating, but this can not be depended upon to remove all the bacteria or raw vegetables. The only known bacteria that grow in plants are the Botulinus baccilli. The poison given off from the body of this germ is a deadly poison in very small amounts, but if well heat ed is readily destroyed. The germ is not harmful, only the toxic material manufactured by the germ is not harmful, only the toxic material manufactured by the garm germ is poisonous. Many plants are dangerous if eat en. There are probably 20 or 30 spe cies of the mushroom that are po isonous, and toadstools, often mis taken for mushrooms, are poisonous. Plant foods, however furnish most of the necessary elements necessary for well being: carbohydrates, pro teins, and vitamins. From a point of food value, the following are the most important among the leafy plants: lettuce, col lards, cabbage, turnip tops, spinach, brussel sprouts, kale, and water kress. Fruits of the plant kingdom con tain less of the food element than are found in the seeds, leaves, and roots. They are valuable, however, for their laxative properties, salt content, and anti-scorbutic properties. RCA VICTOR Truly lifelike tone will thrill you! No sputteringor“boom”. Amazing 10-tube extra-fea ture radio offers you greater distance—tremendous power, and beauty you can’t equal f PlymouthHdw.Co. C. O. ARMSTRONG But philosophers are usually mis understood. as socrates learned when the Greeks ordered him to drink his cup of poison, so Armstrong prefers to talk about history, athletics, or current events. He likes history, and while major ing in English at college, took his tory as his minor subject. Now, tea ching it in the High School, he at tempts to make it as interesting to his students as he found it himself. The study of history is of vital im portance today, he believes, because without it as a background one is at a loss to understand the meaning of the tremendous forces which are in conflict that may soon drag the United States again into world war. The two mightiest men in the world today he says, are not Hitler, Roosevelt, or Mussolini, but Pope Pious XI and Stalin. Coach Armstrong was born in Wil son, 23 years ago, the son of a Me thodist minister. His father died when he was four years old, and he grew up in Ayden, an only child. In high school he developed a keen interest in athletics and played foot ball, basketball and baseball. After graduating, he worked one summer as cashier in a Washington, D. C. restaurant, then entered the Univer sity of North Carolina without any Likes Study Philoso phy and Teaching History particular idea of what he wanted to do. At Christmas he left and entered East Carolina Teacher’s College, ma joring in English and minoring in History. After graduating in 1935, he went to Batli and taught history there one year, coaching the basketball and baseball teams. Both teams did well with seven games won and three lost in basketball and nine victories against one defeat at baseball. But that summer he entered George Peabody College at Nashville, Tenn. and the following March received his Masters degree. The Plymouth football team has not been anything remarkable this year, but has a record of three games won against three lost; and in this he is considerably ahead of last year when only one game of the season was won. and that against the “B” team of Elizabeth City. It takes time to build a football team and with this year's start if Armstrong is in Plymouth next fail the Panthers should be something for the other teams of the Alber marle to recon with. THE TWO DIFFERENT SIZES (60-85 Horsepower) 1938 Ford will be ON DISPLAY NEXT WEEK From All Indications These Will Be The Greatest of All Fords Bigger Autos — Larger Trucks PLYMOUTH MOTOR COMPANY J. R. MANNING J. I?. WILLOUGHBY FOR SAFE SEEING M FLOOR LAMPS o RARE BEAUTY + SUPERB LIGHT gJPACE does not permit full details of all the superior features of these two beautiful lamps. Here are a few: Base and standard in heavy metal, plated in satin silver and gold (sketched left) and two-tone copper (sketched right). 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