THE
Roanoke Beacon
Washington County News
PUBLISHED EVERY THl'RSI)AY
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-.- - - $150
Six months - - 75
Advertising Rates Furnished
Upon Request
Entered as second-class matter
at the post office in Plymouth,
N. C. under t*.e act of Congress
of March 3, 1879.
Thursday, April 4. 1940
Helping Yourself
And Your Town—
The new offering of stock in the
local building and loan association
comes at a particular appropriate
time. Announcements have been
made by a large number of banks
within the past few days that the in
terest rale paid on saving deposits
would be reduced to 1 |x>r cent, while
building and loan associations in gen
eral are paying from 5 to 5 per cent
for the money invested in their stock,
which makes the latter type of in
vestment oven more attractive.
and
In particular, the Plymouth Build
in u and Loan \ssodation has an ex
cellent value to offer local people who
wish to save a part of their earnings,
whether for home-building purposes
or just the usal “rainy day" contin
gency . The recent advice from the
state insurance department, which
supervises building and loan groups
in North Carolina, that earnings of
the local association would justify
paying 4 per cent on full-paid stock
may not mean very much to the ave
rage wage earner, who seldom has as
much as :j>100 to invest at one time,
but the fact that installment stock is
earning in excess of 5 per rent should
mean a whole lot to them, because
theft)- are few indeed who cannot af
ford to save 25 cents a week, which is
all a single share costs.
In addition to the earnings fea
ture, we still think the building and
loan plan of savings is one of the
best. When he subscribes to stock,
a person feels that he “owes" the
amount, and there is less likelihood
of missing a week’s installment than
there is when he simply decides to
lay aside a certain amount each week.
Twenty-live cents a week doesn’t
sound like much money, while the
SI00 which comes back at the end of
the six-and-a-half-year period is a res
pectable sunt, anyway you look at it.
The Beacon sincerely believes the
Plymouth Building and Loan Asso
ciation is potentially the greatest sin
gle influence in town for building and
developing Plymouth, but the organ
ization will never realize on its pos
sibilities until practically everyone is
a shareholder and booster for it. The
shares cost so little each week that
almost every person can own a few,
benefiting not only the community
but himself or herself even more.
Subscribe now while the books are
on the tenth series. If you cannot
buy five shares at a time, take three,
or even one. (jet the building and
loan habit you'll find it's a mighty
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H. E. Harrison
Wholesale Co.
PLYMOUTH
line thing to have when your stock
starts maturing at $100 at share.
Enlistments Needed in
The War on Cancer
The organized tight on one of the
greatest scourges of the human race,
cancer, is being extended to every
section of the Tnited States by the
Women ' Field Army of the Ameri
can Society for the Control of Can
cer. Right here in Washington
County. Mrs J. C. Swain has been
designated county chairman and an
intensive campaign is being waged
during the month of April to secure
enlistments and contributions for dis
semination of the facts about this dis
ease, its causes, treatment and pre
vention.
It is said by Women's Field Army
authorities that the fight on cancer
can he won by education, since the
disease in its early stages is curable,
and it is largely for the distribution
of information that the army was or
ganized. In this connection, answer
ing the question "What can 1 as an
individual do,” the Women's Field
Army advises:
"You can have a complete physi
cal examination once a year of all the
sites where cancer is likely to devel
op. Women over 35 should have the
B. P. Examination (covering the
breast and pelvic areas) semi-annual
ly. If the examination report is a
clean bill of health, this is the best
possible insurance against cancer. If
some sign is found it has been de
tected in an early and hopeful stage
when there is the greatest chance for
favorable outcome.
'■ \ ou can memorize the cancer dan
ger signals, painless symptoms that
may mean cancer and should always
mean a visit to a physician. They are:
any persistent lump or thickeping,
particularly in the breast; any ir
regular bleeding or discharge from
any body opening: any persistent and
unexplained indigestion; any sore
that does not heal normally, espec
ially about the tongue, mouth or lips;
any sudden change in the form or
rate of growth of a mole or wart.
“You can enroll in the Women's
Field Army and pay the dollar enlist
ment fee or make a contribution to its
work. Every dollar helps spread the
message of hope. By enlisting you
join a great national health movement
and receive in return information that
may save your own life or that of one
dear to you.”
Rambling
...About
By THE RAMBLER
Prank Bratten handed to The Ram
bler this week a press release from
Manitou Springs, Colo., in which a
minister had suggested hymns to be
THE PROFESSIONAL MOURNERS
t
HIT-AND-RUN DRIVING
By RONALD HOCUTT
North Carolina Highway Safety Division
Calling attention to the ser
iousness of hit-and-run driving.
Ronald Iloeutt. Director of the
Highway Safety Division, as
serted recently that he has au
thority to suspend a driver’s li
cense in hit-and-run cases in
volving property damage only.
"The driver who damages an
other motorist’s fender and
tries to get away without re
porting the accident is a poten
tially dangerous driver, so we
are making suspensions in hit
and-run eases involving proper
tv damage only. Revocation
is mandatory, of course, upon
connection in hit-and-run cas
es involving a fatality or per
sonal injury.
“Drivers must be made to
realize the importance of stop
ping after striking another ve
hicle, a bicyclist, or a pedes
trian. This is a serious offense,
and the Highway Safety Divi
sion wants to do everything
vtilhin its power to put tin end
to it.-’
J
remembered by ihe motorists as t lie
speedster increased the rapidity of
the movements of his machine down
the highways, and it runs as follows:
"Tlte motorists with any ‘regard
for his future abode' should sing
hymns as the speedometer climbs up
ward." the Re\. L. C. Miller said in a
safety sermon at the Mennonite
Church.
His selections at the different
speeds:
‘‘At 25 miles an hour. ‘I'm but a
stranger Here, Heaven is M.v Home;’
at 45 miles, ‘Nearer My God to Thee;'
at 55 miles I'm Nearing the Port
and Will Soon be at Home;' at 65
miles, ‘When the Roll is Called Up
Yonder, I’ll be There;' at 75 miles,
'Lord, I'm Coming Home.' "
The newspaper is the most imposed
upon institution in the United States,
according to an article by Damon
Runyon which ran as a King Fea
tures syndicated column in many dai
ly newspapers. Mr. Runyon, who
gained fame as a sports editor, col
umnist and writer of short stories,
said in his syndicated column:
NEWSPAPER OWNER PAYS
"If the owner of a newspaper goes
to a restaurant for a meal, or to a
FOR STATE SENATOR
I hereby announce my candidacy for the State
Senate as one of the Senators from the Second Dis
trict, subject to the will of the Democratic Party
in the Primary on May 25, 1940.
HUGH G HORTON
WILLIAMSTON, N. C.
We've Been Married
Twelve Years ....
But Uur 144 Kent
I Receipts Will Not
Buy Our Home...
Now we have sub
scribed to stock in the
Plymouth Building and
Loan Association and
J are paying for our own
home, which will be
ours in a few years.
Tenth Series oi Stock—Dated April
1st—Now On Sale
See Secretary M. W. Spruill at the City
Clerk’s office and enter your name for the
number of shares you want at 25c per share
weekly.
PLYMOUTH
Building and Loan Association
hotel for sleeping accomodations,
he pays for the same right on the
nail. If he enters a store and orders
merchandise, he pays for that, too.
"If he attends the movies, or the
legitimate theatre, or a concert, or
a baseball game, or a prize fight or
any other entertainment, he usually
settles at the box office or with His
pet scalper for his tickets. Occasion
ally he may get passes, but not often.
The owner is not the favored fellow
on the paper when it comes to passes.
"The newspaper owner pays as he
goes through life, the same as any
other consumer He pays for 1
clothes, and his groceries, and 1
morning milk. He pays for his pub
lie utilities, and foi everything cl <
he gets. He expects to pay and pro
bably is glad that 1, is able to pay
"But now here comes a very cm i
os situation. The newspaper owin'
also has something to sell, which ;
advertising space in his newspap
The propsrietors of the hotels and
restaurants or the venders of mei
chandise and public utilities would
probably think tin newspaper owner
little better than a burglar if he sent
around to them asking that they sup
ply him with their commodities free
of charge, yet some of them think
nothing of cadging free advertising
space from him.
COMMON PRACTICE
■‘It is common practice nowadays
for business enterprises of all kinds to
employ publicity men. or press agents,
for the sole purpose of getting all the
publicity possible in tlie newspapers
free of charge. As against this free
publicity, some of the enterprises may
buy advertising space, but often the
extent of their buy does not measure
up to what they ask for nothing.
•'We are not critizing the press
agents. Theirs is a recognized and
an honorable profession. Sometimes
it is almost an art. We are merly
citing their occupation as a thumb
nail illustration of a theory of ours
that the newspaper is the most im
posed upon institution in the United
States—that it is called on to give,
and does give, more for nothing than
any other agency, public or private.
"This is m no sense a complaint on
behalf of the nwespaper. The news
paper never complains of its giving.
If the Lord loveth a cheerful giver,
he should most certainly love the
newspaper, for it gives gratis of its
space with amazing cheerfulness,
which is perhaps one reason why it
is so greatly imposed upon. We doubt
that the average person realizes the
extent of the imposition. Sometimes
we wonder if the newspaper itself
realizes it.
"It would be difficult to estimate in
dollar and cents the value of the
space wangled out of the newspaper
every year free of charge by enter
prises dsi; ned .strictly for private pro
fit. It would probably run into mil
lions. Of course, the newspaper i.«
not usually deceived as to the pur
pose of the enterprises, and it gen
erally has ilia not wholly uncommer
cial idea that perhaps there is suf
ficient reader interest in the enter
prise to warrant the free space, read
er interest being the first concern of
the newspaper.
"It is reader interest that causes
tire newspaper to give free of charge
columns of space to the church and
to charity and to civic affairs. How
exver. this tree giving does not come
under the head of imposition. It
comes under the head of community
obligation, of which the newspaper
has the deepest sense. If every com
munity reciprocated in proportion,
the newspaper would be a chich insti
tution. indeed."
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INC.
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/. B. Willoughby J. R. Manning
“THE HOME-TOWN BOYS”