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THE Roanoke Beacon and Washington County News PUBLISHED EVERY FRIDAY In Plymouth, Washington County. North Carolina The Roanoke Beacon is Wash ington County's only newspaper. It was established in 1889. consoli dated with the Washington County News in 1929 and with The Sun in 1937. Subscription Rates (Payable in Advance) One year_$1.50 Six months_ .75 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 27, 193B Show lour Appreciation By l our Cooperation Beginning with Wednesday. June 1, the merchants and business men of Plymouth, with few exceptions, will close their establishments at noon each Wednesday during the months of June, July and August. This is done to give clerks and office work ers an opportunity to get a little re creation during the summer months, when a measure of outdoor exercise and relaxation becomes almost a ne cessity. This arrangement should not in convenience anyone after the sche dule becomes established. Of course, some are going to forget to order things the first few Wednesdays, but it will be possible to obtain necessi ties in most instances, and the ad vantages outweigh the little trouble involved. Patrons of Plymouth establish ments are asked to bear these half holidays in mind and cooperate in helping to give the faithful workers in the stores and other places a little time off during the hot-weather months. They give you the best ser vice possible the year around, now show them your appreciation by do insr your shopping early on Wednes days. The Need of a (wood Hotel Becomes Acute As the time for the opening of the new bridge over the Albemarle Sound gradually grows nearer, the thought keeps recurring in Plymouth that our need for a first-class hotel becomes more and more acute. The new bridge will undoubtedly bring hundreds of people through this section annually that have been traveling other routes. And when the paving of route 97 to Washington is completed, which will undoubtedly cause a rerouting of the Coastal Highway, U. S. 17, through our town, these hundreds of new travelers annually will become thousands. But, unless we do some thing about the matter ourselves, we still will not have a hotel. The suggestion made recently by J. Roy Manning that he could se cure an outside investor w'ho would put up $25,000 for a new hotel, pro vided the people of the town would raise $5,000. is well worth going into. Some local organization could win lasting honor for itself and do the town lasting good if it would get be hind this movement and help put it over. At the very least, it is some thing to think about. Let Every Person Pay His Proportion President Roosevelt undoubtedly has the backing of a big majority of American citizens in his recent pro posal to the Congress that steps be taken to halt the issuance of tax-ex empt government securities and to make all salaries paid to government employees subject to state and na tional income taxes. Some authori ties are of the opinion that a consti tutional amendment will be necessary to effect these reforms, but whatever it takes, we are for it. Issuance of tax-exempt government bonds has probably been one of the most vicious of all tax discrimina tions. If a man owns 310,000 worth of these bonds here in Plymouth he doesn't have to list a single penny for local taxes, whereas if he has $10,000 invested in a building here, it will probably go on the tax books at around $6,000, on which he will pay $108 in county and $120 in town taxes, making a total of $228. On top of that the man who owns the government bonds does not have to worry about a return on his in vestment. Come good times or bad, the coupons will be paid, and he knows it. On the other hand, the man with a $10,000 building has to employ local labor for its upkeep; the rents he collects are subject to wide fluctuations, and there may come a time when he can get no in come at all from his investment. Even then he has to continue to pay the taxes or lose his property. It is not fair, and it never has been fair. And then there are two men draw ing the same salary -one from a pri vate concern, the other from a go vernment agency. Why is it right to tax one man and let the other go scot-free? Whether it takes an act of Congress or a constitutional amendment, here's hoping the present session does some thing to remedy the inequalities that have long existed in these two in stances. -A I se Electricity Safely You have a giant ready to do your work at the push of a button. But don't ever forget that this giant is not always friendly. Electricity, properly controlled, is safe, but there is a very real danger of shock if electrical appliances or lamps are defective or if proper pre cautions are not followed. Safeguard your home with reference to the most careless person who may enter it. Appliances or lamps should not be placed near metal objects that are grounded, because if someone touch es both at the same time, the result may be disastrous. Most adults ap preciate this fact but children can not be expected to know. Numerous tires are caused by el ectrical pressing irons, toasters, curl ers, etc., left attached and unattend ed until they over-heat. Many ap pliances are now equipped with automatic shut-offs, which break the circuit before the temperature goes too high, but an extra measure of precaution is easy and worth, while. Always detach all heating appliances when leaving the room. Another word of caution: Ask an electrician how many lamps and ap pliances may be plugged in safely to one outlet and do not use more. Use the correct size fuse and don't put pennies behind blown fuses. All wiring should be done by an expert electrician and in accordiance with the specificiations of the Na tional Electrical Code. Householders should watch for frayed and worn cords and have them replaced with new. Avoid hanging wires over nails and running them under rugs as this sometimes causes short curcuits. Many an amateur electrician has sown the seeds for a serious fire. Play safe and leave all wiring work to those who know the game. -$ Farming as a Life Occupation No more important decision is made by a boy or girl than choosing a lifework. Farm boys who are con sidering this problem will find valu able advice in an article by Dean Paul W. Chapman of the Georgia College of Agriculture, in The Pro gressive Farmer, from which we quote the following list of advantages and disadvantages of farming as an oc cupation: Advantages— 1. Farming offers security from un employment. 2. A man works for himself. 3. It is a healthful outdoor life. 4. There is variety in the jobs to be done. 5. Personal and household expenses are small. 6. A farmer may be at home with his family. 7. There will be no danger of los ing the job on account of age. 8. It is a mode of life that makes saving possible. 9. Farmers live well compared with city workers with the same income. 10. Farming provides the oppor tunity for stimulating experiences in the improvement of livestock, fruits, and crops over a period of years. Disadvantages— 1. Capital is required to get estab lished. 2. Income is uncertain due to the weather. 3. There is an overproduction of farm products. 4. The farmer cannot set a price on his products. 5. There is no weekly or monthly pay check. 6. Schools and churches are not as good as those in cities. 7. A man is working in competi tion with untrained workers. 8. There is outdoor work to be done in bad weather. 9. It is hard to get away from the farm for vacations. 10. The achievements of farmers are not recognized to the same ex tent as accomplishments in other vo cations. O, Little Shoes Travelers Safe* Serine O little shoes with the scuffed-up toes, That look so small in his father’s hand, Weren’t you proud and big and graiid When you started this morning for No-One-Knows? No-One-Knows, with its belfries tall. Its golden ramparts and shining towers, Knights and fairies and magic powers To tempt the heart of a traveler small! Now dusk has come and his feet are still Ere ever his knightly spurs are won, For his body was broken and crushed and done While yet he trudged to the first green hill. O little shoes with the blood-stained toes, O light gone out of a boyish face, Was this the end of his splendid race? Was this his City of No-One-Knows? —Anne Sutherland Brooks. Back-Biters Whiteville News-Reporter Some of the severest critics of the President now are those same |>euple who turned to him in 1933 to help lift the Nation out of the depths of fi nancial and economic depression. President Roosevelt nobly accepted his share of the responsibility, but the people of the nation as a whole were wont to shift upon his square shoulders all of the responsibility. Sometimes when we hear people whom we know have been benefited by the President and his administra tion critizing both unmercifully, we wonder if they could not ask them selves the question: “How much have I contributed toward recovery, either psychologically or otherwise? Have 1 not preached the philosophy of fear, and adhered to the age-old custom of biting the hand that feeds me?” The Difference The Elkin Tribune Those who are so frantically de nouncing President Roosevelt and the New Deal; those who are seeing hor rible ghosts in the shadows, ghosts that threaten the earnings of invested dollars and strike ‘‘fear" into the hearts of industralists who have no better alibi, should consider what is happening in England right now. The news columns tell that “mil lions of Britons are told that they must pay an increased basic income tax amounting to $1.37 out of every $5 they earn.” This is to meet the mounting costs of arming to the teeth, in preparation for a war that seems inevitable. Britain has a “conservative” ad ministration as against our much discussed extravagance, yet here are are a few comparisons that should be interesting. If you were an Englishmen, with a wife and one child, and earning $2, 500 for the year, your income tax under the new order would be $92.62. As an American you pay nothing. If you earned $3,000, there you would pay $200.62; here nothing. If you earned $5,000, there you ■would pay $640.62; here it would be only $64.50. If your income were $10,000, there you would pay $1,878.12; here $379.00. In England it is assumed that all income is taxable. There are no de ductions. And you pay it wihout warping an income tax blank to make it say what you want it to say. And in England when you drive up to a service station, you pay a gaso line tax of 18 cents a gallon, and ev ery other source of revenue is tapped with the same sort of hammer. True, England is compelled to pre pare for war that may or may not come. We are having to fight a war of depression that is already here. Why then should we be grumbling ourselves black in the face: and call ing everybody names, because we must pay, if we would win this war Why should business be scared stiff, when it cannot take its dollars to any other of the greater nations, with out being disadvantaged by the trans fer? That is worth thinking about, if Rambling ...About By THE RAMBLER \ Interesting Possibilities— You have heard the expression, anything might happen." countless times, and just last, week we observed a striking example of a real defini nition of the saying. A fellow passed our office, apparently doing his eter nal best to walk the “straight and narrow,” at any rate, straight. He was slightly inebriated, having about reached that stage where navigation was becoming a major problem. He would set his glassy stare on some dis tant object and try to aim directly for it but he was evidently having difficulty in getting his feet to co operate w'ith him. because he was using up just about all of the side walk. What made the possibilities so intriguing and unlimited, however, were the facts that he had a big basket of eggs on one arm and that it was Saturday afternoon, with a large number of people on the streets. Topic for a Sermon— A young fellow dropped into the office the other day and wanted to borrow a Bible for a few minutes. He never did make clear exactly why lie wanted it. We didn't have one but offered him access to half do zen varieties of dictionaries. Roget's Thesaurus. The World Almanac, Congressional Directory, and several other reference works, but he still insisted he wanted the Bible. He had been to a number of business places before he came in here, and the last we saw of him he was still hunting in vain. That search of his would suggest a mighty good subject for a sermon. Most people have a Bible at home, but there certainly aren't very many to be found in business establishments. And adopting a cyn ical attitude, it's probably just as well. The Other Fellow's Job— As a rule, the other fellow's job always looks better than our own, but there's one group of men the mem bers of which are welcome to all the joys they can find in their work—es pecially during recent months. They are the county agents. They have been cussed, discussed and criticized at great length about the allotments of farm crops, over which they had absolutely no control. And. to a re markable extent, they have been very agreeable about it, doing their best we'd only pause in our political hat red to reason it out. to iron out inequalities, although this is a matter that was left up to the various eommittees chosen from the farmers themselves. We have selected several clippings that appeared in other newspapers recently, giving an insight to the problems these agents have faced. They follow: ('.one. Hut Not Forgotten— The Goldsboro News-Argus tells of the farm agent who kept receiving letters from Washington about the affairs of a farmer who had died in his county. This farmer has cooper ated in the AAA soil conservation program, and the county agent no tified the bureau in Washington when the man died. The bureau kept right on sending letters to the dead farmer, addressing them in care of the county agent. Finally, in des peration. he sat down and wrote: "As I have told you several times before. Mr. Jones is dead. Therefore, I really don't know how to reach him. He's not in hell; that I am sure, for I have been there myself for the last 30 days. I have abandon ed all hope of that other place, so if you have to reach him there it might be a good idea for you to get in touch with someone else. Sincere ly,” etc., etc. fretting It lhum Small— From the Whiteville News-Repor ter we learn that a certain farmer tn that county sometime ago was asked by a friend on the street whether or not he had his tobacco allotment yet. "Oh. yes," lie replied. "What did you get?" "I was allotted one hill of tobacco and advised to top it low." That's Telling 'Em— The Roxboro Courier, explaining that it means to cast no reflections on anyone, reprints in its original form part of a letter protesting an acreage cut. Here goes: "My tobacco akerage was cut clown from 9 akers to 4 akers, and if it's left like they left. I and my fam ily will be ruint for life or shall have to be put on direct relief anso forth. "it seems that my farm was mea sured with a airplane, but when they took its pitcher from up in the air, they were too high and included joe moor's sow pastor, i want his stuff took off my map at once. when they cut my tobacco akers down to 4 i can't produce enuf to bacco on this small territory to make a good chew, and besides that they included by watter-million patch and the children’s baseball dimont on my farm, but these improvements is on my wife's land which she inherited from her uncle when he died from flues in 1921. “we don’t want no airplane mea surements, but send a shortlegged government man down to step my akerage off. or let him measure it with a 5-foot rule or a plow line, i will help him free of charge, i can't stand this cut in our family, we guess you all know we have to eat. don’t you? how can we exist without akerage? "one of my nabors was alloted 13 akers, and last year he growed 12. we work adjoining farms, why this favvor-ite-ism? he is no more dimme crat that i am. he voted for al smith, as a matter of fact, i have stood by the new deal, but if i can’t work but 4 akers you mought as well not look for me at the poles when the next election comes off. i won’t be run over. ’ if they want to they can send me m.v soil erosion and rental and par rity check right away and I wont ask them to give me more akerage. as a matter of fact, if they will give me about $5 per aker, they can have the land and we will move off it and go back to the w. p. a., where we should have stayed while there in the first place." E. C. Tatum If ill Fred Href (]atllr on 11 is Farm this year -® E. C. 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