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THE 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 it the post office in Plymouth. N. C., under twe act of Congress if March 3. 1879. April 3, 1941 "Fame sometimes hath created something from nothing”—Fuller APRIL 2—Ponce de Leon anchored near St Augustine. 1512. 3—Tom Dewey won Wiscon sin delegate. 1. 1940. 4—\V?A head asked Con gress for 985 million. 1940 2-Discussed poss-.fcle feint Anglo-French parlia ment. 1940. t—Mormon Church found ed at Fayette, N. Y„ 1830. 7—Marietta O founded. 1788. 8—King Dog fled from Al bania 1933. Only Two Days to Register Every citizen of Plymouth should register before the books close Sat urday night and vote for extension of the city limits at the special elec tion on April 15. The small regis tration reported so far constitutes a real threat to the success of the pro posal to enlarge the town, because it is a well-known fact that all the op ponents of the extension will be sure to qualify and vote against it. Only two days remain for regis tering. and it should be kept in mind that no one is eligible to vote unless he, or she. registers before the books close Saturday night, regardless of how many times he may have voted or registered in the past. It is generally admitted that a big majority of Plymouth people are in favor of the extension, but the kind of indifference being shown can eas ily defeat it: and unless a decided change is manifest between now and Saturday night, it is a foregone con clusion that the proposal is dead. -* Labor at the Crossroads As a whole, American labor is as patriotic as any other group, which makes it all the more difficult to un derstand why organized labor is put ting up with the type of leadership which’ is rapidly undermining every gain it has made during the past 10 years. Much of the labor unrest pre vailing today is of course overem phasized by the press in general and labor-baiters in particular, but even that still does not explain away some very unwholesome acts which are to be charged up to its present leader ship. lhe American people are in no frame of mind to countenance inex cusable delays in the national defense program, such as are being caused by jurisdictional strikes or wars between contending factions of organized la bor. Another factor which is work ing to the serious detriment of the or ganized workingmen is the unreason ably high fees being charged by some of the building trade unions for “work permits” and initiation fees, ranging up to $2 per day for the former and $1,500 for the latter. There can be no justification for these charges— and the cases cited have been authen ticated. Labor is on trial before the coun try, and leaders who advise “grabbing while the grabbing is good” are do ing the cause of organized labor far more harm than all of its most vic ious foes. Every labor-hater in the Congress is clamoring for passage of some particular bill which will set organized labor back 20 years and nullify every gain it has made through slow and careful process. Responsible labor leadership must realize that management and capital also have the right to a fair return' for their ability and investment. Re curring demands for wage increases become impossible to meet in the face of constantly increasing taxes and government demands that prices for finished products not be raised. This is further aggravated in some indus tries where the product from one fac tory, which ha- a contract with or ganized labor, is marketed in com petition with the -ame item made by unorganized labor in other factories. If labor leaders, through wage de mands impossible for this factory to meet, force its shutdown, they lessen their chance of ever successfully or ganizing the whole industry. Organized labor has come far in the past decade, its very progress at tracting numbers of get-rich-quick schemers who have little thought for the rank-and-file workingman. It is time for labor to check on its leader ship and to purge the radical "isms" which have crept in. Either that, or have a revulsion of public opinion which will turn back the clock on the labor movement ten, fifteen or twenty years The Building & Loan The fourteenth series of stock in the Plymouth Building and Loan As sociation went on sale here this week, once more providing an opportunity for would-be home owners to "get in on the ground door.'' Organized a little over three and a half years ago, the local association, while small, has has made a record for itself that is not equalled by many similar organi- j nations, regardless of age or size. In the first place, it has made it j possible for a number of badly needed homes to be built here in Plymouth. It has enabled a number of persons to become home owners who otherwise would still be paying rent. It has provided for a much larger number of local people a safe place in which to invest their savings, at the same time teaching in the most effective manner the incalculable value of sys tematic saving of small sums of mon ey. The local association has grown steadily, earning a profit even in its earliest years, which is very unusual according to state building and loan offiicials. It merits the whole-hearted sup port of Plymouth people, not only for what it has done and is doing to build up the town but for the good it is doing its own shareholders. The in stallment shareholder is the backbone jf the institution, and a large sale >f stock in the current series will mean that much more money to lend to home owners as they get ready to build here. Writing of local building and loan associations, the Elkin Tribune last week had the following to say: The building and loan shareholder nays himself to save, knows what the wage scale is, and is 100 per cent cer tain that there will be a pay day. That’s worth considering in this day of industrial and financial un certainty, as many disappointed In vestors in private enterprise very well know. For, no matter how praise worthy, how honestly and efficiently conducted the corporation or other concern may be. the stockholder must depend on others to keep his invest ment secure; must depend on them to do his saving, and must leave the pay day to them. The recent annual reports of build ing and loan associations In North Carolina indicate that they have done right well, thank you. That means of course that the shareholders have done right well by and for themselves. Watts WILLIAMSTON Thur.-Fri. April 3-4 BARBARA STANWYCK HENRY FONDA in “THE LADY EVE” Sat., Apr. 5 1 To 11 P. M. CHARLES STARRETT in Thundering Frontier Sun., Apr. 6 3 & 9 P. M. MARLENE DIETRICH and JOHN WAYNE in •SEVEN SINNERS1 Mon.-Tues. Apr. 7-8 GINGER ROGERS and DENNIS MORGAN in “KITTY FOYLE” Wed..Apr. 9 Mat. 3:30 LIONEL BARRYMORE and EBWARD ARNOLD in “THE PENALTY” Thur.-Fri. Apr. 10-11 EDW ARD G. ROBINSON JOHN GARFIELD and IDA LLPINO in “THE SEA WOLF” Marco - Williamston Fri.-Sat. Apr. 4-5 “Los Vegas Nights” with PHIL REGAN BERT WHEELER and Tommy Dorsey'* Orchestra EXCESSIVE SPEED-A KILLER By RONALD HOCITT North Carolina Highway Safety Division "Your* mav be the only car oil thi- road and you still will stand a > bailee of being involv ed in a serious accident unless you drive at a safe speed," Konald Hoeutt. director of the Highway Safety Division, said this week. Hoeutt made this statement alter -Uidying the 1940 record wit hi respect to single-responsi bility accidents on North Car olina streets and highways. Sin gle-responsibility accidents are accidents involving only one ve hicle and one driver, as when a car overturns in the roadway, runs off the road or strikes a fixed object. "It doc-n't take two cars to make an accident." he declared. "It only takes one ear driven improper!.. Last year, 988 per v»ns were killed in traffic acci dents in North Carolina, and 280 of these v. ere killed in single responsibility accidents. Fifty four were killed in ears that struck fixed objects, such as bridge abutments. telephone poles, etc., on the roadway or on the right-of-way. And ltil were killed in cars that got out of control and ran oft the road. Sixty-eight were killed in cars that overturned in the road way." "A large majority of these ac cidents are a direct result of ex cessive speed." the safety direc tor said. "Cars just don't turn over in the roadway or go sail ing off into a ditch or field un less they are being driven so fast that their drivers are un able to control them "It is speed that is killing peo ple every day on North Carolina highways, and until speeding is discouraged by unrelenting and impartial enforcement, we need not expect any reduction in sin gle-responsibility accidents, at least." For. after all, saving' dollars, as im portant as that is. is not the sole function of the building and loan plan. Buuilding and loan dollars are constantly at work creating new val ues, building new homes or improv ing old ones. That means employ ment for men who need to earn to live, and the dollars these workers spend help to build more profits with which to buy more commodities which require still other workers to produce. We don't know any institution whose activities reach out to touch and ben efit more people, volume of dollars considered, than those of the build ing and loan associations. And that is by way of appraising these institutions from one angle only—the angle that has to do with dollars saved and put to work. But there is something else to be con sidered: the habit-forming angle in which the shareholder practices thrift until it becomes almost second-nature with him: he gets so he really enjoys the "pinch" of diverting a small por tion of his weekly pay check, because he has seen how it grows and grows. Yet he does not look on the accumu lation in a miserly way—he sees in his savings the security that most certainly he will need in the days ahead. Wonder why more people are not employing this service and pay them selves for saving? Wonder why more of them are not educating their chil dren to its value? Cod Bless America Hertford County Herald Steve Cardinale lives in Monterey, California. He is a native of Sicily and peddles fish for a living. He appreciates much the privilege of living in America. A few days ago he wrote the fol lowing to President Roosevelt: •I am sending fifty dollars to you to be used for the defense of our be-1 loved country and all that 1 can do for this land that I love. I shall be glad to do. The real democracy is in 'his country and we pray it shall not die.” How many native Americans have sent fifty-dollar bills to be used in .National defense! The fellow who insists that life isn't worth living, surely struggles to hold on to it, just the same. Rambling ...About By THE RAMBLER Dictating /4 s Is— "... Now, look here: I fired three girls for revising my letters, see?" said the Boss to his new Steno. "Yes, sir." "All right; now take a letter and take it the way I tell you." And the next morning, Mr. O. J. Squizz, of the Squizz Soap Company, received the following letter: "Mr. O. K. or A. J. or something— look it up—Squizz, what a name. Soap Company, Detroit, that's in Michigan, isn't it? Dear Mr. Squizz: Hmmm. You’re a hell of a business man. No: start over. He’s a crook, but I can't insult him or the bum'll sue me. Tire last shipment of soap you sent us was of inferior quality. I want you to understand—Hmmm—unless you can ship—furnish—ship—no. furnish us with your regular soap, you nedn't ship us no more period or whatever the grammar is, and pull down your skirt. This damn cigar is out again. "Where was I? Paragraph. Your j soap wasn't what you said—I should ! say it wasn't. Them bums tried to j put over a lot of hooey on us. Whadda | you flappers want to paint your faces | up for like Indians on a warpath? We're sending back your last ship ment of soap tomorrow. Sure, we're gonna send it back. I’d like to feed it to 'em with r spoon and make 'em cat it, the dirty bums. Now read the letter over—no. don't read it over, we've wasted enough time cn them crooks. Fix it up and sign my name. What do you say we out to lunch'?” April Fooling— This seems to be about as good a time as any to get the following off our chests. So here goes: Father: “Mabel, that young man of yours stays too late when he calls. Hasn't your mother said something to you about it?” Mabel: “Yes, daddy; mother says men haven't changed a bit.” The proprietor of a highly success ful optical shop was instructing his son, newly entered into the business, on how to go about charging a cus tomer. I "Son,” he said, "after you have fit Buying a New Car? Here's How To Save on Finance Charges.... — Insure Your Own Car i When we finance your ear you place the insurance with your own agent. And this is the best way. ★ Spot cash buyers are rare along automobile row— and “cash” talks big value and savings when making a deal for a new car Here's how to save on finance charges: Get an auto loan at this bank and we’ll give you the cash with which to buy your car. You can save up to one-third on finances thru our simple loan plan. Ask us for details tomorrow. ★ Branch Banking & Trust Company Plymouth, N. C. SOUND BANKING AND TRUST SERVICE FOR EASTERN CAROLINA THE Public FORUM WARREN S HIST<'!n To the editor : I have been following with keen in terest Nell Battle Lewis’ . ' ;mn for the past five weeks, in which -lie gives some very reveal.;i Inhumation about Jule B. Warren: Nosh Caro lina History: and I v .Led to see that The Roanoke Beacon . ad an editorial on the subjt or l.i week. This situation should be > i the attention of even parent in North Carolina. Miss Lewis’ column ha - b< en e spec ially interesting to me as I ha\ one child in the flft 1 lower grades, who will ewntuaiiv be called upon to study :h; book, as they will both reach Lie fifth grade before the five-year . nt: is up I am today writ in Mi frotman, the prin pal ing against the use of th and asking that my child ex rd from further study time could be used to better advan tage on seme other subject. Every parent of children in the fifth and lower grades especially, should protest the use of this book: and I feel that they will. if they are all made aware of the facts in the case. Miss Lewis cite over 200 er rors in fact, not including numerous errors in grammar, polling and punc tuation. With this inf' matron be fore us. we. as pare::: will be fail ing in our duty to o”. is. sen. if we allow the continued u e of this very inaccurate history- V.’< .cl tie ted the customer with glasses, and he asks what the charge will be, you say 'The charge is $10.’ Then pause and wait to see if he flinches. "If the customer doesn't flinch, you then say, 'That's for the frames. The lenses will be another $10.' Then you pause again, this time only slightly, and watch for the flinch. "If the customer doesn't flinch this time, you say, firmly. Each.' " A colored man got his nerve to gether and took a flight in an aero plane. As he climbed out of the ship on its return to the field, lie turned to the phot and saici "Suli, I has to th you fo both them rides." "What are you talking about," said the aviator, "you only had one ride.” "No. suh." returned the passenger. "Ah done had two—mah fust and mah last!" Visitor: "Are your father and moth er in?” Skippy: “They in. but they is out.” Visitor: “They was in. They is out! Where’s your grammai ?" Skippy: "She’s upstairs.' mand Its withdrawal (’row* o"r schools, for our children s benem, and lo serve as a reminder to our poli ticians that, after all. the people still have a voice in governing our coun try. Yours very truly. Mrs. ELLIS MAPLES. Winstead's Minstrels COMING TO Plymouth ONE NIGHT ONLY Wednesday, March 9 UNDER THE BIG TENT Doors Open 7:15 Show Starts at 8:15 P. M. ENTIRELY NEW SHOW COMEDIANS DANCERS SINGERS A Good Clean Minstrel for Everybody Admission 15c and 25c, Plus Defense Tax CHEAPER THAN DIRT! YOU SAVE $11.60 OH THIS ROYAL DE LUXE COMBINATION. S29.95 ROYAL FLOOR CLEANER AND $14.95 STRAIGHT SUCTION HAND CLEANER $44.90 VALUE! ONLY $3.95 DOWN' |—|ERE'S A combination value you won't want to miss . . . and why should you ... at such a low price! The floor cleaner is full sized, rugged and powerful, built for those who wish to enjoy the advantages of Royal cleaners at minimum cost. The .'and cleaner included, as pictured above, is easy and thorough to use for cleaning curtains, draperies, upholstered furniture, mattresses, etc. Act now? YOUR ELECTRICAL DEALER OR VIRGINIA ALECTR:; AND POWER CO.
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