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THE Roanoke Beacon and Washington County News PI BUSHED EVERY THCRSDAY 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 I'pon Request Entered as second-class matter at the post office in Plymouth, N. C., under the act of Congress of March 3. 1879 -11 \ PRESS ASSOCIATION j © ■ January 18. 1940 Encouraging News For Stock Raisers The most encouraging news for stock raisers is not found in the mar ket quotations or in the forecasts. Reports state that telephone officials are going to raise beef cattle in Hyde County. The venture may prove dis appointing. but it is reasonably cer tain to believe that when telephone officials undertake a project there is usually money in that project, and big money, too. Tax Problem Is Political Dilemma The big question is: Will Congress increase taxes in an election year? President Roosevelt looks with favor on a 10 per cent “super-tax” on the income tax—primarily to help pay increased national defense costs. A man or woman who ordinarily pays an income tax of say $40 each year, would find himself owing S44 on March 15, 1941. under this proposal. The only alternatives to raising taxes are for Congress to get really serious about economizing or to fol low the course of the last few years of letting the deficit mount by three billion dollars or more annually. The latter “out" isn't as easy as it looks either, because the national debt is restricted by law to $45,000,000,000. Without new taxes or economy, the debt surely would go beyond this mark in the 1941 fiscal year. There fore, Congress would have to amend the debt limitation law, which in an election year might be embarrassing politically. So, anyway you look at it, the tax problem is really a political dilemma this year. Tax Reduction Begins at Home Tax reduction, like charity, should begin at home, Mrs. Melville Muc klestone, president of the National Consumers Tax Commission, recent ly told the Philadelphia Federation of Women’s Clubs. Stressing the vi tal need for more economical and more efficient municipal government —the XCTC theme for 1940—she urged appointment of joint citizens officials committees to work for bet ter service, lowered costs. One spe cific improvement suggested is eli mination of long-term bond issues; this practice has been found to re sult in present-day taxpayers still be ing assessed for improvements made as far back as the Civil War, the commission reports. Complete Answer By Secretary Hull Senator McXary of Oregon recent ly sent Secretary of State Hull a copy of a statement he had made complain ing that wartime currency deprecia tion in Canada. Great Britain and France had, in connection with our trade agreements with those coun tries done such serious injury to this country’s trade that the agreements should be canceled or modified. In a letter replying to Senator Mc Xary, Secretary Hull showed by au troritative official figures that this statement, like others put out by Re publicans, was just simply not true. Secretary Hull wrote: '’Your sole evidence of injury is the citation of a theory—that when one country depreciates its currency unit another country, whose currency re mains at the old level, inevitably finds its exports to the depreciated-currency country retarded and its imports from that country stimulated. Without dis cussing the merits of the theory, let us look at the facts. “An examination of what happened to our export and import trade with the three countries you mention dur ing the first two months of the war— namely, September and October, 1939 (the latest complete figures available) —as compared with the corresponding ■ period of 1938, reveals the following data: In the case of Canada, our exports to that country rose, between the two periods, by $35,989,000, while our imports from that country increased by only $23,322,000. "In the case of Great Britain, our exports to that country rose In $$, 121.000, while our imports from that country increased by only $1,320,000. ''In the case of France, our exports to that country rose by $1,131,000, while our imports from that coun try declined In $4,503,000. “Taking the three countries to gether, our exports to them showed an increase of $45,241,000, while our imports from them rose by only $20, 139.000. “Whatever may be the case in the future, the theory you cite, in its ap plication to the situation with which we are immediately conrerned. fails completely to square wTith the facts." Surplus Food Supplied Needy The annual report of the Federal Surplus Commodities Corporation re veals the great progress made by the administration in correcting the evil of need in the midst of plenty. By means of the Food Stamp Plan. School Lunch Program and the dis tribution of food commodities to State welfare agencies, thousands of tons of the agricultural surplus have been brought to people who were in need of them and who, without the em ployment of these methods, would not have been able to secure them. By means of the free school lunch program 29,000,000 pounds of com modities were distributed in 14.000 schools for the benefit of 900,000 children. State welfare agencies re ceived for distribution to needy and unemployed persons farm products of about forty kinds in the amount of 50,500 carloads. Among the com modities were such important items of diet as butter, skim milk and eva porated milk, eggs, oranges, grape fruit, apples, peaches, raisins, prunes and many kinds of vegetables. These surplus commodities went to an average of 10,500,000 needy peo ple each month to supplement their regular supplies. PROGRESS A summary of 37 progress reports of unit demonstration farms in Gra ham County shows that much pro gress has been made on these farms n the past four years. Cooperation Is Succeeding! “Clean Up or Close Up” Campaign, with Public's Aid, Is Ridding State of Illegal, Disreputable Beer “./oints” Colonel Edgar H. Bain State Director "Courageous support from the pub lic. press, officials and law-abiding beer retailers accounts for our Com mittee’s heartening success," de clares Colonel Bain. "My apprecia tion is hereby extended to all. to gether with my appeal for continu ance of this intelligent cooperation.” Six months ago, the Brewers and North Caro lina Beer Distributors Committee began its efforts to eliminate those relatively few beer outlets that sought to hide liquor selling and other illegal activities behind the respectability of legal beer licenses. "Clean Up or Close Up" was the ultimatum. The results are gratifying. Public sentiment has been awakened. Newspapers all over the state have reenforced us with editorial support. Law enforcement agencies have responded with constructive aid. And 37 licenses have been revoked — 37 "dives,” so to speak, "kayoed." For the generous cooperation received, we are most grateful. Accept our pledge that through out the New Year we shall continue unremit tingly the job of driving law violators out of the beer retailing business in North Carolina— driving them out, and keeping them out. I I I Editorial Comment on “Clean Up” Campaign Rockingham Post - Dispatch: The Industry does not want beer sold in Joints where blind tigers operate. . That's why the industry has a 'clean up* committee " Oxford Ledger: "An alertness to insure distribution of their product only through reputa ble outlets is keeping the I Brewers ancl North Carolina [ Beer Distributors Committee l active in many sections of J North Carolina.’’ Greensboro Record: the state committee of the brew ers and beer distributors is in a position to render a very definite service in ridding <immunities of places which belong In the category of dives and low clast hang outs.’ ” statesrtlle lJall.v: The aver age citizen Is .-till rubbing his eyes In unbelief, but slowly 1* becoming convinced when he srer, beer dealers losing their licenses after engaging In questionable nr tlces. And that has happened here lr. Iredell." Durham Sun: "The dealers In beer have outlawed the boot legger . Such a campaign : certain to have wholesome ef fects." Hickory Dally Record: " the Beer Committee has done iU duty, and all persons who ;ir sincerely Interested In curbing the Illegal sale of herd liquor will welcome the opportunity to Join In the crusade.” Salisbury Post: "The beer folk have taken the stand that they want beer dispensed only In establishments of good gen eral reputation To that end they ... are filing formal legal petitions for the closing of such establishments as serve beer hut fall In some measure to sustain a good name." The State (Raleigh): "Col Ed gar Bain 1» reporting ex - eellent progress .. The work has he«n progressing quietly but excellent results have been accomplished." Lexington Dispatch: “where oeraona are found selling with out licenses the violation Is promptly reported Tills work in a good many Instance* may result in a decided check on bootlegging." Brewers and North Carolina Beer Distributors Committee „ 813-817 Commercial Building Raleigh, N. C. Rambling ...About By THE RAMBLER "Life Is Sweet"— tin the Walt Mason Manner) It’s passing strange how man will cleave to life when life is vain, when lie's racked, from morn to eve, with every kind of pain. I used to say. when hale and blithe." if sickness come to pass. I hope the reaper with his scythe will mow me down like grass." I would not wish to Unger on, to swallow concrete pills, and bit ters from a demijohn, to stave off fa tal ills. I’d hate to lie for weeks in bed. with only pills to eat. with pou ltices upon my head, and more upon my feet. Oh. better far to loop the loops, and weeks of anguish shun, and join the silent sleepng groups whose agonies are done. I thought I meant it while I talked, but lately I was prone, and pains and aches un chartered stalked through every thew and bone. There was no hour in many weeks wherj I knew aught of ease, and aches and pains with vul ture beaks tore at my neck and knees. I heard the docs and nurses sigh. "Twere mercy if he'd croak: that pains that through his system fly. have fille dthe house with smoke.” But I endured my grevious ills, and cried in accents strong. "There surely are some purple pills that wll my life prolong.” The kind mortician came around and tried to make me see I’d be much better underground, be neath a willow tree. But I refused to bump the bumps, to quit this mun dane game, while yet the pain in leaps and jumps, cavorted through my frame. And now I smile sardonic grins, when I hear one cry, "When once a sickness dire begins. 1 11 curl me up and die." Worth-While Things— W. R. Hampton, a member of the Board of the State Department of Conservation and Development, has a poem framed on his desk that car ries with it a beautful sentiment: Things worth while are not what you get, But what you give: Not what you say. out how you live: Gving the world, the love it needs Giving a life of noble deeds. Not where you come from, but whi ther bound. Not what you have, whither found, Strong for the right, the good, the true; There are the worthwhile things for you. For School Children— Here is a little song that the school teachers might try on their children some tme using the tune of "Ho! For Carolina " 1 Do you love North Carolina, our Old North State. With its hundred counties all trying to be great? Then just love old Washington better than the rest, For it is your very own to serve anti make it best. Chorus: Hail to Washington County, that's the place to be! The PUBLIC Forum HAPPY NEW YEAR What a world of inspiration is couched in those three words; what a multitude of hopes and expecta tions come to our hearts and minds as we read them on greeting cards, or have them called to us by our friends. No other time in all the year of fers such opportunities for looking ahead, for blotting out the mistakes of the past, and beginning again, it is truly the springtime of the heart, and a time for retrospection, for re calling pleasant happenings of the year just ended. I am very pleased to say ‘‘Happy New’ Year To All and May Your Fondest Hopes Come Into Realiza tion in 1940.” SADIE LEE FAGAN. Dardens, N. C., January 13, 1940. NOTICE North Carolina, Washington Coun ty; Superior Court. Washington County vs. Fred W. Ben ckendorf, Bertha Benckendorf, J. O. Carr, Trustee, and M. S. Haw kins, Trustee, The Board of Drain age Commissioners of Albemarle Drainage District (Beaufort Coun ty Drainage District Number Five), Norfolk Southern Land Company, Incorporated and North Carolina Land and Investment Company. The defendants, Fred W. Bencken dorf, Bertha Benckendorf, J. O. Can-, Trustee M. S. Hawkins, Trustee, Norfolk Southern Land Company, In corporated and North Carolina Land and Investment Company, will take notice that an action has been com menced in the Superior Court of Washington County to foreclose the tax Liens of said county for the years 1929 to 1938, both inclusive, covering a lot situate in Lees Mill Township. Washington County, State of North Carolina, described as fol lows : Being i subdivided portion of Re gistered J *ate No. 126, Book 6, page 176, of Washington County, N. C., and being the porthern part of Lot No. 57 of a subdivision of certain lands made by Norfolk Southern Farms, Incorporated, containing 156 acres, said property being more par ticularly described in Title Book 8, page 49, Washington County, to which reference is hereby made for a more particular description. The said defendants will further take notin that they are required to appear before the Clerk Superior Court, at his office in the Court House, m Plymouth, Washington County, North Carolina, and answer or demu: 'o the complaint of the plaintiff' within twenty days from and after the 18th day of January, 1940, or t:., plaintiff will apply to the Court for i he relief demanded in said complaint. This the 20th day of December, 128 4t C V. W. AUSBON. Clerk Superior Court. On its fertile farm lands live the thrifty, free And its thankful people none can finer be, Oh! it is a bounteous land with great and full plenty. 2 Lees Mills and Roper, Mackeys and Chapel Hill. Creswell, Cherry, Cross Roads and Skinnersville, Long Acre. Long Ridge and Pleasant Grove, Scuppernong. Lake Phelps and Plym outh let us love. 3 Tliink of all its fine “boys." men and maidens too. Mothers by their hearthsidcs. faith ful. loving, true. Who in church and nation, school and store and farm. Worship God while serving, man. free from all alarm. 4 First in soybeans, renowned in poul try. too, Corn and cotton, pork and a danged good chew." With an auto for a ride, and a road upon which to go. With some money in the bank.—our blessings who can know. God in heaven we thank Thee. Thou our Father still, Make us true and worthy to do Thy holy will; May we love each other, respect and keep the law. V SPEED'S FINE IN HOCKEY BUT NOT IN CIGARETTES. I LIKE SLOW-BURNING CAM ELS... THEY'RE MILDER AND cooler! Roy Conacher, high-scoring forward of the Boston Bruins In recent laboratory tests, CAMELS burned 25% slower than the average of the 15 other of the largest-selling brands tested — slower than any of them. That means, on the av erage,a smoking plus equal to FOR EXTRA MILDNESS, EXTRA COOLNESS, EXTRA FLAVOR. Camels Slow-Burning Costlier Tobaccos Always be Thy children and worship Thee in awe. A Leg-a-cy— 11 ls t0W of the case near here w;ure a bereaved young widow urent. n see a lawyer about settling up the esi ite of a deceased relative. 1 he attorney looked into the mat ter and smilingly declared. "Madam you have a nice, fat leg-a-cy." Next morning when he woke up in a hospital with a bandaged jaw he wondered what in the world he had said QUICK RELIEF FROM Symptoms of Distress Arising from STOMACH ULCERS due to EXCESS ACID Free BookTells of HomeTrcatmentthat Must Help or it Will Cost You Nothing Over one million bottles of the WILLARD I I JATMJENT have been sold for rebel.«{ symptoms of distress arising from Stomach and Duodenal Ulcers due to Excess Acid Poor Digestion. Sour or Uoset Stomach. Gassiness. Heartburn Sleeplessness, etc., due to Excess Acid. Sold on l"» diys’trial! Ask for ‘-Willard’s Message” which fully explains this treatment—free—at ARPS PHARMACY Be Thrifiy — Check These Values! WHITE HOUSE APPLY JELLY, 2-lb. jar LIGHT MEAT TUNA FISH, 2 cans COLONIAL CUT BEETS, 2 No. 21 cans BULK PURE LARD, 2 lb. STRONGHEART DOG FOOD, 416-oz. cans 20c 25c 17c 15c 19c BRUCE’S BLENDED JUICE, 46-oz. can.17c FINE QUALITY BOLOGNA, lb.15c NEW PACK TOMATOES, 3 No. 2 cans.17c PENDER ASSORTED CAKE, 1-lb. layer, each.19c White House APPLE JELLY. 3 jars 25c Triple Fresh, Our Pride Loaf OUR PRIDE BREAD 8c Large LUX FLAKES, pkg. 25c Best PURE LARD, 50-lb. stand $3.75 Double Fresh D. P. BLEND COFFEE, 1 lb. pkg. 20c NATIONAL PEANUT WEEK! Virginia Maid Peanut Butter, 2-lb. jar... «r Candy Peanut Cubes, lb.. 10c Choc. Cov. Peanuts, 2 lb.. 25c Red Mil) Peanut Butter, 1-lb. jar .. 15c Tremendous public accept ance of the 1940 Chevrolet has brought in the finest stock of used cars in all history. Your CHEVROLET DEALER IS NOW FEATURING THE GREATEST USED CAR AND TRUCK VALUES Look for your Chevrolet dealer s used car listings in the ■ ■ classified pages of this, paper! OF THE YEAR! House Chevrolet Co-/ Inc, PHONE No. 279-6 Washington St. _PLYMOUTH, N. C.
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