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TIIE Roanoke Beacon and Washington County News PUBLISHED 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 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 as the post office in Plymouth, N. C . under the act of Congress of March 3. 1879. January 16, 1941 An Excellent Start Action of the grand jury in requir ing the county tax collector s office to check draft registration lists and poll books for names of persons who have ben failing to list their personal pro perty and poll taxes is an excellent thing It is eminently fair in every respect, as those who have failed to list have been enjoying every advan tage of government that those who have listed enioy. Absolute equality in taxation is possibly unattainable. Beyond ques tion, ther will always be some injus tices; a few who pay too much and a great many who payr too little of their fair share of taxes. However, it is worth while to constantly strive to make the burdens of taxation fall on each alike, in proportion to ability to pay, of course. One of the first steps in equaliz ing taxes is to be sure that the name of everyone supposed to pay taxes ap pears on the tax books. And by the method adopted here last week, se veral hundred names have been add ed to the list. True, most of them will have only their poll taxes to pay, but even that will add several thous and dollars in revenue for the opera tion of county and town affairs; and if it is fair to tax those with much property, it i just as fair to put some tax on those with little property. An excellent start has been made, and our county tax authorities should use evry available check to see that the tax rolls contain the names of all persons required by law to list. Fur ther. every reasonable method to en force the collection of taxes levied should be used. This is only fair to those hundreds of good citizens who list and pay their taxes as they come due. Another Legislature The 1941 session of the N'orth Ca rolina General Assembly gets off to a little more promising start than many of its predecessors, due mainly to the OUR DEMOCRACY by Mat WHO OWNS AMERICAN WEALTH ? VwMr Aw 300 YEARS AGO- _ A CLEARING OF LAND REPRESENTED A colonist's wealth. 200 YEARS AGO — HOMES, FARMS . SMALL MILLS AND SHOPS, OPERATED k'i. BY INDIVIDUALS REPRESENTED WEALTH. * *** I IOO YEARS AGO — THE STEAM ENGINE EXPANDED PRODUCTION, INDIVIDUALS POOLED || ™ L-. CAPITAL TO OPERATE THEM, INCREASE WEALTH. ODAy MILLIONS OF INDIVIDUALS POOL THEIR. WEALTH TO PROVIDE CAPITAL FOR VAST ENTERPRISES. THE NATION S 64000,000 LIFE INSURANCE POLICYHOLDERS HAVE A BIG STAKE IN U.S. INDUSTRY THROUGH THE INVESTMENT OF ASSETS WHICH ARE THE SECURITY BEHIND THEIR POLICIES fact that general business conditions are in much better shape than they were a few short years ago. Tax problems will continue to dominate the session, of couse, but they are nowhere as serious as they were a few short years back, when the bottom had fallen out of everything and raising enough money to operate various state functions was almost impossible. Those who look for elimination or even drastic moderation—of the sales tax are doomed to disappoint ment. It has become a permanent feature of our tax structure, and we do not believe any of us now living will ever se its complete repeal, es pecially as long as the state continues to operate the public schools. One of the leading controversial measures will doubtless be passage of a state wages and hours law molded to conform more nr less with the similar federal statute. Opposed by most small business enterprises, this proposal nevertheless has merit, we think, since many small industrial plants are in direct competition with larger firms which are required to ob serve the standards laid down in the Federal act. Manifestly, it is unfair to force one concern to observe cer tain wage and hour schedules and to permit another concern making the same product to disregard them, sun ply because one of them does a strict Loyalty Just as you are loyal to your family, be loyal to your home town. It’s where your best friends live and the center of your interests, it's the place you rear and edu cate your children, it's the one spot in the land you call—home. Boost Plymouth by patronizing local business men whenever possible. That’s the sure way to keep our community a good place to live and do business. Branch Banking & Trust Company “THE SAFE EXECUTOR” Plymouth, N. C. SOUND BANKING AND TRUST SERVICE FOR EASTERN CAROLINA ly local business while the other hap pens to sell some of it< output across state lines. The legislature began it> session by passing a bill to raise the pay of con stitutitional officers by about 10 per cent. Without going into the un seemly haste by which this bill was passed, we hope teachers in the schools of the state will receive the same consideration when it is pro no-ed to raise their meager salaries. .North Carolina has treated its teach .rs shamefully in the matter of salary schedules, and certainly all possible should be done during the current session to remedy matters. The first few days of the session was devoted to putting the legislative machinery in motion, but it is ex pected the assembly will get down to real business within another week. People of the state will watch closely its actions during the coming weeks. •-® Pork is cheap. Around here this holds true for the road hog variety, too. I Rambling ...About By THE RAMBI.FR In Raleigh— When Representative W. M. Dar den left last week for the legislature in Raleigh. I went along also. He went to attend the Democratic cau cas that was held last Tuesday night and to take his seat in the House when the lower unit of the General Assembly opened on Wednesday morning. I went along as a candi date for reading clerk and I was eli minated on the first ballot. Enroute on Monday morning. Washington County - lawmaker must have cuff links and a black tie. He managed to purcha- : he cuff links which he was afraid e would lose. But that cravat. That > a story in itself. You see he must have that black tie to use with 1 tuxedo that he was to wear on T ursday night to the Governor's Ball Maybe it shouldn't be told but the tuxedo was borrowed pr:or to his de partue. And though had attired himself in the tu.xcci. determine which was the lar. him or the suit, he was still afrai : that the cuff links would be lost tie become untied, the suspenders hold the trou sers too far from his shoes, or some thing. If you haven't worn a dress suit to a Governor .- Bail you don’t Know au aooui uns ucui.u uuo. ness, according to the so’.on. Arriving in Raleigh Tuesday after noon. I turned to greeting the legis lators in an effort to : some votes for my reading clerk 10b. Represen tative Darden he began working be hind the scenes. Of course, it turned out that whether the work was done in front or behind the scenes. 18 votes was the best we could muster. One good soul informed me that he would "vote for me even if I couldn't do anything but mumble in the trial reading before the muse.' Another said that Mr. Dard. n had "told him how to vote in the last session and he expected to blindly follow him this session." But the other 110 made no pledges to me. So I wasn't misled. Representative and Mrs. Cameron S. Weeks, of Tarboro There is a cou ple for you. Her husband is blind. She conducted his successful cam paign for the office and now attends him very devotedly as he represents his county in the House. He is a smiling, friendly, congenial man. Not what you might say in a political way but in a happy way. But then Representative Darden hasn't got that black tie yet. That cravat must be on hand in plenty of time. So he goes into a store and buys two. No telling, he explains, what might happen to one. And you know this tie is for the governor's ball. They only have a Governor's Inaugural Ball every four years. And not every body goes. Then I see in the hotel lobby Wal ter J. <Pete> Murphy who has been going to the legislature in this state so long that the mind of modern man hardly runneth to the contrary. Yes sir, there he was in the hotel lobby shaking hands with friends. Like the old time politician he is., he had on his spiked coat with unmatching trousers. He is a fixture in the House. Glancing around the hotel lobby. I saw a group of men in conversation. TOLL MUST BE REDUCED By RONALD HOCUTT North Carolina Highway Safety Division ‘■It's going to take a lot of in telligent planning and coordi nated effort on the part of a lot of individuals and organizations to eheek the current upward trend in traffic accidents in North Carolina." Ronald llo cutt. director of the Highway Safety Division, declared this week. Reporting that provisional fi gures indicate a toll of approxi mately 1.000 killed and 9.000 injured on North Carolina streets and highways during 1940. Ilocutt pointed out that accidents in the state since last August have taken an upward trend which appears liable to continue into the New Year. "This slaughter must be stop ped, and I pledge a more vigor ous effort on the part of the Highway Safety Division to wards reducing traffic accidents during 1941," he said. "But we cannot do the job alone. The traffic problem is largely a local problem, and definite steps to ard eliminating accidents must come, for the most part, from enforced officials, educational leaders and interested organiza tions and individuals in eaeli and every community in the state. Hoeutt said there was eon siderable safety activity on the part of many groups in the state last year, but that much of this activity was of the flash-in-the pan variety. “Safety activity, to be most effective, must be carefully planned, assiduously carried out and well coordinated,” he stat ed. "Another thousand North Ca rolinans who are now living will be dead and thousands whose bodies are now whole will be maimed and crippled by the end of this year unless every person in North Carolina resolves to do something and then actually does something to make our streets and highways safer dur ing 1941.” The safety director said his services and those of his field workers are available in assist ing any groups sincerely inter ested in helping to reduce this state's traffic toll. '--— I managed to edge into the crowd and they don't quit when I move close up as they know that I am a candidate and that I don't count any way so they keep right on talking over the big matters of state. I heard one say something about the drys making an effort to have the State ABC law re pealed and they engaged in very ear nest conversation and after aw'hile I heard one say something about "re tiring to his room where he can get some of the contents of this law in his constitution so that with the vigor that it produces he can argue from personal knowledge that these spirits of pleasure and gaiety should not be returned to the bootleggers for mar keting as their sales force must of necessity be limited and the ingre dients used in its manufacture may not be as wholesome, as the ingre dients of that in the ABC stores." I had never seen a lobyist before. So there standing before my very eyes is Sam Blount, of Washington. Now this Sam Blount has been lobbying for some time. Seems as how he represents some beer manufacturers who want to keep their merchandise on the market even if the ABC stores go. He knows every lawmaker and they know him. He meets and greets jthem. They remember him when I they go to vote. What legislator could with any degree of calmness displease this smiling, friendly lob byist? So beer remains here. And then back to the cravat again. Mrs. Darden who arrived to go to the ball had a hard time determining which would be the better tie for her husband to wear to the ball. He could choose either the factory-tied one or he could call in his friends to tie the other. Eventually, it was de cided to adjust the strap on the ready-tied one and use that. This was done. Meanwhile, I am advised that it might be a good idea for me to go up to the House chamber and get a range on the distance that my voice must carry so that I can read loud Only lowest-priced car with this smart, safe, soundproofed BODY BY FISHEB!" ofthe same type and size featuredon higherpriced cars Stylt That * Outstanding '3-Couple Roominess'' in Sedan) Double-Paneled Steel Doors You ride in the body of your car as you live in the rooms of your home; and you ride in outstanding beauty, comfort and safety when you ride in a new Chevrolet with Body by Fisher! You 'llSay FUlSTBECAUSE ITS FMSTr Box-Girder Bracing Solid Steel Turret Top Concealed Safety-Steps 1 Ultra-Sale Unisteel Construction Original No Draft Ventilation Tmfh-'Btufk! House Chevrolet Co., Inc. W. C. HOUSE, MANAGER PLYMOUTH, N. C. enough to be sufficiently heard when the trial reading takes place Tues day night. I pick up a young fellow who is standing by a post to listen for me. He and others said that my voice was okey. So I returned to meeting and greeting the legislators. Representative Darden and I drop ped into the rooms of O. M. Mull, of Cleveland, who like George R. Uzzell, was a candidate for speaker. Mr. Mull came from Shelby as did Governors Morrison. Gardner and Hoey. So he won the speakership. He is one of the most pleasant men you have ever met. So are all of the Shelby boys. They win, you know. Bill Horner, of Sanford. Now that’s the man for you to know. Ever pleasant and friendly he knows his way around Sanford and Raleigh. He put Ralph Monger over as reading clerk, and me and three others couldn't stop it. We ate lunch toge ther but I failed to learn much of his political stradegy. I did hear, how ever. that it was noised abroad that I didn’t need the job as reading clerk as I had a job back home. And Bill and Ralph spent me back to it. I think that if I had Representa tive W. I. Halstead, of Camden, to make a speech for me kind a like the one he made for Shearon Harris, of Albemarle, for chief clerk of the House I might have got that reading job I went after. He told of nominat ing Thad Eure for the place about 10 years ago. He said Bill Baker had a State job and Harris did not. This is something like the whispering cam paign they had against me. And it is said that Eure ran for Represen tative after serving one term and was defeated and the next time he made a successful campaign for Secretary of State. Besides lawmakers, I saw some newspaper men. For instance, there was Tom Bost. columnist for Greens boro Daily News: Charlie Parker, city editor for News & Observer; Tom Peel, Associated Press: and some others. Now these boys cover the capital •'like tile dew covers Dixie." And. of course, they have personalities too. Likeable. I should say. Not so much like the movie reporters but hard-working news gatherers. 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