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Boanokc Beacon and ff ashington County News im bushed every Thursday 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 Tire Sun in 1937. Subscription Hates (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 I C„ under the act of Congress of March 3. 1879. Thursday, August 31, 1939 Your Child Gets What Is Paid His Teacher Education is the backbone of any civilization. And it can be no strong er than the teaching personnel which has the job of educating. Upon the citizens of this state falls the responsibility of setting a level for teachers salaries which must inevi tably limit that personnel. In a current Broadway production old Mentor Graham comforts young Abe Lincoln, storekeeper, who is up to his neck in debt: "Well, Abe— just bear in mind that there are al ways two professions open to people who fail at everything else: there's school teaching, and there's politics. He spxike for the 18.50's, but the re mark still raises a laugh in the 1930's. The old idea of education also foster ed the notion that teaching was a semi-free service, to be done in the spirit of the missionary with a very small salary. Teachers renounced till things worldly, including the dollars which would have enabled them to learn something of that world and piass it on to their charges. That situation is fortunately yield ing under the action of time and change. Whichever way one turns, whether in the fields of health, rec reation. economics, of social, politi cal, governmental, international, in dustrial. literary or scientific endeav or. conditions are rapidly changing under expanding scientific discoveries. I'oday's teacher is faced with the pro fessional obligation of interpreting to boys and girls the complex life around them. It is no longer possible for the teacher who accepts that challenge to be the limited person he or she was even two decades ago. For nearly a00 years laymen have controlled the public school systems of our country and have footed the bills. Today they are requiring of teachers generally 4 and 5 years of preparation beyond high school, and often additional summer study. They are setting for teachers a cultural standard which demands travel, wide reading, attendance at plays, lectures, forums, recitals, museums. Any per son who is to lead youth to the satis faction of parents must live in an ac ceptable environment and move among stimulating associates. Such professional training and personal living require salaries which make them possible. According to recent studies on earn ing of occupational groups in the United Slates, complied by the Xa tional Education Association and the U. S Bureau of l abor Statistics, tea chers stand tenth in the following list, presented from highest to lowest: con sulting engineers, lawyers, physicians, dentists, ministers, employees of class 1 railroads, other city employees, fed eral employees, employees in all manufacturing industries, teachers in public schools, all manufacturing wage earners, cotton textile mills wage earners. Educators recognize that the schools exist solely for the education of the pupils, and not as a means of support for the teachers. Yet it fol lows logically that teachers' salaries must be comparable with earnings in other professions in order to attract and hold [>eopIe with sufficient abili ty to fulfill the more sfr;-igent and exacting requirements 01 education :ri the modern world. First Observance Oi Labor Day Here l’K rn. nth s an old town, as towns o(> in this section, but for the tirst time in its long history, next Monday will mark its first formal observance of Labor I>a>. Stores and business houses will be closed Iront 10 to 1, in order that employees may take part in the parade and program being sponsored b\ organized labor here It is a fitting observance. A man who is willing to work, or labor, has always been considered honorable by this section > code of standards. And Labor Day was designated by our na tional legislature as a time to honor and show mir appreciation for the workingman. After all, every con venience and comfort that we enjoy is the fruit of -ome man's labor. \nd every man who works for his living is honored by the setting aside of this dav for his recognition. Washington County is still essen tially a rural section, despite the presence i several large industrial en terprise. and it was therefore in the best of taste for the officials of or ganized labor who are sponsoring ob servance of Labor Day here to invite all to participate in their program. It is characteristic of the considera tion they have shown in their deal ings with their employers—and recip rocated by the latter—which has re sulted in the fine spirit of cooperation and understanding existing between employee and employer here. Let us enter into the spirit of the day and take part in the programs designed to present the laboring man at his best. Several excellent shak ers are booked for addresses at the meeting, which should prove both en tertaining and instructive to all who will attend. --<®> New Deal Policies WhitevilU .Wilts Reporter President Roosevelt has been the target for such an onslaught of mer ciless criticism during the past year that we tire moved to inquire if such censure as has been accorded the chief executive is at all warranted. During tae six years since Presi ANNUAL USED CAR CLEARANCE SALE ALMOST EVERY MAKE j CAR THEVK OF A GOOD USED CAR—your favorite make and model. Want it? Come and get it. We’ve got it for you at a bargain! Bargains flock together. We sell Ford-built produets—the smartest new car “buys” on the road today—sell ’em fast! And every new car sale is a Used Car opportunity for you. That’s why we’ve got so many for you to choose lrom note. Here you're sure to find the car you want—in better condition and priced lower than you’d dare to guess! SEE THESE AND OTHER OUTSTANDING VALUES 1934 FORD V-8 TUDOR SE dan—in good condition $200 1934 CHEVROLET Deluxe Sedan. A bargain MASTER $200 1933 CHEVROLET Ready for you to drive _ COUPE— $150 1937 FORD TUDOR SEDAN 85 Horsepower. Re conditioned $400 1937 TUDOR FORD SEDAN 65 horsepower. Tip AA4P top shape, only f 3 1936 FORD TUDOR SEDAN 85 horsepower. Low mileage $325 PLYMOUTH MOTOR COMPANY J. R. Manning “The Home-Town Boys” J1_B1WiUoughby Rambling ...About Bv THF RAMBI.FR Tough Going Ahead— With the whole of Europe tottering on the brink of war and destruction as this is written <Monday', we are quite sure that no classes of people are more earnest in their prayers for peace than the poor copy editors, proof-readers, linotype operators and printers on daily newspapers who are going to have to unlearn everything they might have ever learned before about spelling and pronounciation of the names of people and places. To be sure, the men who have the power to make war have never given full thought to the dire and horrible consequences that such action may bring. And a younger generation of printers has grown up who give little heed to what is ahead of them, should war be declared. They little know and realize the anguish and hopelessness of it all when someone begins an at tack on. say. Przemysl. in Poland. dent Roosevelt took the oath of office, he has made many mistakes. He could be expected to do little else than make some mistakes during his tenure of office. He has been called by his severest critics a cheap politician interested only in his personal ambitions. That seems to be rather caustic language to describe the man who has done as much for the little man as has our national leader. Nobody will : r. --fully essay that .Mr. Roosevelt's administration has not been guilty of some errors of judgment, and that some of their ef forts have fallen far short of their objectives, but in the main, we be lieve that Mr. Roosevelt's actions have been motivated by a noble pur pose, and not the desire to turn the nation's highest office into a poli tician's paradise. I'o be sure, we in America haven't agreed with our national leader in everything he has done, and we have exercised the noble American peroga tive of cussing everything which we do not like. In America, we enjoy that unique privilege, one not enjoyed in many other nations of the world. New Deal policies, it remains our belief, have been born of a desire to make America a better place in which to live, but it still is for the Ameri can |>eople to say how well they have achieved their objective and whether or not they desire a continuation of the present New Deal policies. which may last for two or three weeks, as it did in 1915 during thp last war. Just a few of the other com munities which are threatened by hostilities include Przasnysz. Pszc zyna, Przemyslany. Swietochlowice. and Rezeszow. in Poland: to say noth ing of Czelandz in Germany. Cwm amman in England. Concordia sulla Secchia and Acquaviva delle Fonti in Italy: Ewyndrecht in Belgium: Ys singeaux in France: all this, now. without even starting on Russia, which has shown some signs of com passion by signing a non-aggression pact. And if you think those words are hard, you just ought to try to read some of the names of the command ing generals. They look like "pi-lines" with the j's, x's and z's running wild. There's a gleam of sunshine in the whole business, thought, not count ing the activities of the man with the umbrella- thank heaven we weren't raised up to be a radio announcer! Progress— One thing this radio business will cause in the new war—if there is a war—and that is a lot more war talk. Back in the days of 1914-15-16-17-18. a fedow was afraid to start, talking about battles and generals because he couldn't go far without having to make a stab at pronouncing a name or a place and he hadn't the faint est idea as to how it should sound. Radio has changed all that. Monday morning almost everybody you met could reel off "Mosickv" and "De-la de-ay" without even slowing up for the turns on syllables, w’hile if they were to run into the w-ords "Moscieki” and "Daladier" in their newspapers they wouldn't know whether they re ferred to a new kind of hoof-and mouth disease or another New Deal Brain Trust, or both. In the Sunday newspapers and broadcasts, there was one name, though, which no one could mistake, neither in the spelling nor the pro nounciation. That word was Hitler. Some of the announcers and commen tators called him “A-dolph” and some said "Ad-olph," but all said "Hitler." We heard several foreign stations and could always recognize "Hitler." whether the speaker was Spanish, French. German or English. We heard him called “M'sieu Hitler," "Herr Hitler." "Signor Hitler." “Senor Hitler," “Premier,” “Chancellor," "Fuehrer.” and then we went up town to the drug store and heard him call ed by some good old American han dles, most of them reflecting on his ancestry, which will not bear repeat ing here. If he has even one friend in this whole section, then that friend is certainly keeping himself very, quiet, which must be a cause of great worry to der Fuehrer. How It Goes— Getting your war news by radio isn’t so hot, anyway. Sunday it would’ go something like this: First, the dang clock was a few minutes wrong, and by the time you'd get that figured out and make sufficient allowances for it, you'd missed the opening an nouncement or hit the wrong station. Then you'd twirl around the dial hop ing to pick up some other station by chance. Right off. you'd find it, all right, but by the time you could get >ettled' back to listen, the station would fade out. or some grand opera screecher on another interferring station would drown out everything you wanted to hear; giving the dial another vicious twist, you pick up the last end of a sentence about like this ■ - • which constitutes a very grave situation, indeed." Figuring you've run into the war news again, you rear back in the chair and the speaker re sumes talking. "The next time you have athlete's foot, or the bellyache, or sump'n. take Blotto at the first sniffle." Biting your cigar in half, you reach over and twirl the dial some more. About that time a fast-talking announcer butts in to say, "You have just been listening to a comprehen sive commentary on the European situation from J. Fuller Bhull. chief of the continental bureau of the Ir rational Confounding Corporation, who was speaking to you directly from Berlindon. Fiance. We now return you to your local station." Then the local announcer comes in. "Our next broadcast on the European crisis will be at 7:86 p. m . western daylight saving time, which is’ 5:86 middle time. 6:86 valley time, and 8:86 some time. Incidentally, at the sound of the gong, it will be exactly 3:46'-, O Watta Lifetime. Cheerio!" Then you send out for a yesterday’s newspaper. LEGAL NOTICES EXECUTRIX’S NOTICE North Carolina Washington Coun ty. Having qualified as Executrix of the estate of S. A. Ward, deceased, this is to notify ail persons having claims against the estate of the said deceas ed to exhibit them to the undersigned at Plymouth. N. 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