THE
Roanoke Beacon
Washington County News ;
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n Plymouth, Washington County,
North Carolina
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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. __
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Entered as second-class matter
at the post office in Plymouth,
N. C.. under the act of Congress
jf March 3, 1879.
and
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May 15, 1941
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"Practical politics consists of ignoring
fads"—Adams
MAY
14— lames Rive: seftle.r.enl
started. 1607
15— National Wc.r.an < Sul
fraae association : J.
1869.
16—First printing press or
rived in Oregon 1839
17—Gerorirr.o v.e;.: or war
path, 1885.
13- 3nush monarchs rec. sd
Montreal, 1939.
19—Chamberlain offered
peace to Nazis, 1939.
20 - Yankee Clippers began
regular transat)an‘:c
service, 1939. w
Conscience may speak to the man
but is lucky for us it doesn't speak
to the neighbors.
You know we aren't too soft from
easy living, when they can still sell
unsliced bread in some of our stores..
We learn of the number of folks
that autos kill but we don't get the
number of folks that autos broke.
You may bluff it out in a large
city but in a small town the folks
know when your bank account is
over-drawn.
From the
Cream of the
Wheat Crop
LIGHT
WHITE
FLOUR
Is Made
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Wholesale Co.
PLYMOUTH
NEW PUBLIC BANKING HOURS
EFFECTIVE WEDNESDAY, MAY 21
In order to comply with Federal requirements (wage and
hour regulations) the Branch Banking and Trust Company of
Plymouth will open at 9 a. m. and close at 1 p. m. each day, in
cluding Saturdays, beginning Wednesday, May 21, 1941.
Your cooperation in arranging your banking needs within
these hours will be appreciated. The same hours will be observed
by other banks in this section of the state.
BRANCH BANKNIG &
TRUST COMPANY
Plymouth, N. C. Member Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation
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Pure Vandalism
The acts of vandalism, resulting in
broken window panes at both the old
Hampton Academy and the High
school building last Friday night, are
a direct reflection on the parents of
the children responsible. After all,
when a child demonstrates a lack of
respect for the property rights ofj
others, it usually because he has
not been taught this first lesson in
citizenship at home; or at least, if
some effort was made to teach him,
the lesson was not forcibly enough
impressed on him.
The timing of this outrage makes
it fairly evident that the perpetrators
are under veiv little restraint at home
In the first place, it doubtless occur
red at an hour when most boys
should be in bed; and, in the next
place, it took place just one day after
school had closed for the term, ob
viously in the belief that even if
caught the guilty ones would not be
required to face the school authorities
and such punishment as they would
mete out.
Destruction of any useful thing is
deplorable, but the pure wantonness
displayed in this particular instance
is inexcusable and it is to be hoped
the guilty parties will be caught and
properly dealt with.
--
The Unvarnished Truth
Mthough we may hesitate to take
his advice, the most realistic and
most sensible steps we have seen ad
vocated regarding our part in the
present war was expressed this week
in The United States News by Vice
Admiral Harry I’. Huse (retired),
former commander of United State.'
Naval 1-orces in European Waters.
In a symposium of answers to the
question: 'Is operation of our nav
al patrols 2,000 miles out in the At
lantic likely to involve us directly in
war?" Admiral Huse sums up his at
titude as follows:
“Our policy is to deject Hit
ler, and our only correct strat
egy is to open war on him while
England is still going strong and
to throw all possible jorcc into
the struggle. Any other strategy
may spell disaster."
['here is a man speaking what most
of us feel deep down, whatever act
ion we may advocate out in the open.
It is the only sensible, logical thing
to do, and we know it: yet, until the
step is irrevocably taken, we still har
bor the futile hope that by some man
ner of means we can escape being
drawn entirely in. Maybe our half
hearted half-way efforts will suffice
to bring the forces of aggression to
their knees. If so, we will have writ
ten an entirely new page in the hist
ory of this world, because it has never
been so before: and what little com
mon reasoning we have tells us it
will not be so now.
Off To Bermuda
You wonder what will be the re
action of the Britisher of Bermuda
to the establishing of Americans on
their island. This is one of the new
defense bases and Uncle Sam is send
ing about 6,000 soldiers, sailors, mar
ines and their families to Bermuda
to establish residence. I'here is a pre
diction that altogether it will be dif
ficult for a native Bermudian to
change from his allegiance to Britain,
with the establishment of homes and
; places of business that the American
; influence will be great enough in time
the islands will become completely
American. Remember that America
j is given a 90-year lease on this island
and that is a long enough time to
prove some theory or other. There
RULES OF THE ROAD
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By KEITH SU NDERS
ol the North Carolina Highway Safety Division
ON DIMMING LIGHTS
Section 94, Motor Vehicle Laws of North Carolina:
"The head lamps of motor vehicles shall be so con
structed. arranged and adjusted that—they will at
all times—and under normal atmospheric conditions
and on a level road produce a driving light sufficient
to render clearly discernible a person two hundred
feet ahead, but any person operating a motor vehicle
upon the highways when meeting another vehicle,
shall so control the lights of the vehicle operated by
him by shifting, depressing, deflecting, tilting or dim
ming the head light beams in such manner as shall
not project a glaring or dazzling light to persons in
front of such head lamp.”
In other words, dim your headlights when meeting
another car on the highway at night. The law re
quires it. courtesy suggests it, safety demands it.
has been a report that already there
were words between the American
soldiers and the British over who won
the last war. Sounds sort of like us.
Perhaps that it is well for the de
fense base to be located on a group of
the small islands at the end of the
country, farthest from the exclusive
clubs, beaches, shops and hotels
which are managed by the British.
Of course \merican businessmen will
follow to this 19 square miles of trop
ical Eden. Time will iron out the
difficulties and after all it was a blow
to the Bermudian that his little em
pire was turned over to Uncle Urn.
They will do business with these
Amercans who bring in new life,
freshness, pep, push and money, but
underneath their entiments tire Brit
ish and it will take years of living on
the islands to work out the problem.
About Editorials
Hutchinson (Kus.) .Vews-IIcrald
\\ illiam Allen White once said lie
had written so many of them that he
could compose editorials while falling
from an airplane.
’ Today the job isn't so easy.
The News-Herald doesn't hesitate
to take its readers into confidence
and explain why.
The criticism one invokes is the
least distressing aspect of the chore.
A seasoned writer isn't surprised
when the same paragraph causes one
reader to damn him as a dangerous
radical and another to blast him as
a moss-backed reactionary. The most
patriotic sentiments are sometimes
interpreted as treason: compliment
ary words somestimes bring anger
from those they were designed to
please. You get used to that.
The worry today is the writer's own
inadequacy.
Once it was the fashion for editors
to pontificate, to write as if they were
omniscient, ubiquitous prophets oper
ating under divine guidance for the
direction of the multitude and the
good of their particular political par
ty. These editors were stuffed shirts.
Their works were tripe, often venal.
Fortunately, most of them are now
retired.
If any survive, this war is enough
to prick their bloat.
The honest editor knows he is only
a half-educated cub whose livelihood
demands he express so many opinions
each issue. Habit has given him some
faciltiv, although his ease of style is
often spawned by his lack of thought.
The sad realization is accentuated
by today's events. Old standards and
values crumble as disastrously as did
the fortifications of the Maginot Line
There seems no whole and practical
Rambling
...About
By THE RAMBLER
Thinking—
A cardinal feature of the American
Democracy is the privilege to think.
Not to think along regimented chan
nels nor patterned after one man's
dogmas or ideas, but to think as the
individual chooses A person may ex
ercise their faculties of judgment,
conception or inference. They can re
vive thinking along the old lines of
civilization or they can discover in
their minds things that are compre
hended for the first time. Reflection
and meditation go hand in hand with
progress.
From much thinking a person can
intend most anything. Thoughts give
birth to the will to build a ship, steer
a car. construct inventions and carve
a nation out of the wilderness. Idle
thoughts are not wholesome because
they give time for the mind to be
come careless and negligent. Proper
thinking is powei for good for all
mankind.
Any person by thinking can con
ceive. imagine, plan or design some
thing but their thinking must also in
clude the possibility of acheiving the
practical realization of their thoughts
Thinking alone is weak but with
faith and actions thinking can do the
impossible.
A person may think, and believe
what they think so strong, until they
will accept as truth the fallacies that
they have created in a fantasy.
wisdom anywhere. Some men can be
blindly loyal to a rigid creed but not
the writer whose job it is to investi
gate all sides. I he editor, for instance,
who swears by every plank of the Re
publican platform and sees no good
in the New Deal is of no value to
the intelligent reader and has missed
his calling. He should be a stump
speaker with a sound truck.
W hat is a man to say now? We
want peace for our country and yet
we want to keep it worth having. Try
and find a perfect formula for that
with Hitler loose in the world and
because of him men are crazed with
fear and greed strangely complicated
by messianic ambition.
The editor has been kicked out of
his sanctum. He can serve only with
humility and be perversely cheered
by knowing what he says may not be
important, possibly won't even be
read. It must suffice he is honest with
himself and knows his limitations.
The world doesn't rest on his
shoulders. He can be thankful for
that.
You Price 'em!
Lei's See II We
Can't Get Together
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Motors in A-l condition. Low mileage.
Look good. Run good.
TWO PLYMOUTH FOUR-DOOR SEDANS—
First-class condition all over. A real bar
gain in unused transportation.
1934 CHEVROLET TWO-DOOR SEDAN—
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and make us an offer.
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SEDAN—Excellent condition; low mileage.
Must be seen to be appreciated.
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Thinking may create sympathy for a
fellow man. Or it may give birth to
disdain, sorrow or scorn Thoughts
may cause ridicule of the landmarks
of the past as they pass away to give
way to a new progress that was born
in thought.
Everything depends on thinking.
Every rule, every act and every im
pulse is at the beck and call of
thought. The human frame will put
up with a whole lot of wrong thinking
but will bounce upward in health and
happiness with right thinking.
A person is able to think himself
into anything by the simple art of
thinking. More success has been won
by thinkers than by those who do not
think. If the way gets rough more
and better thinking is needed because
thinking is the parent of deeds. Or
gans of the body are the servants of
the thoughts of the brain. No one
should fret, worry and run away in
tight places but they should compose
themselves and think the matter
through before acting. Human beings
dominate because they have the fac
ulty for thinking.
A person can think themself into a
beautiful world amid chaos and ruin.
God did some thinking when he
created the world and it made him
happy. Even a maimed or blind per
son can think. Sometimes an emac
iated or crippled body causes the
mind to think harshly, but this
should not be allowed.
The mind should be trained in the
habits of right thinking. So many
parents of today endeavor to do the
thinking of their children, causing a
clash in the wills of the parents and
their offspring. Let children have a
mind of their own, even if their wills
or actions should be restrained.
Thoughts can not be touched, they
can not be seen, they can not be tast
ed. they can not be heard, neither
can they be smelled. But they can be
indelibly impressed upon the mind to
make a picture that will not fade
even with the passing of generations.
The imagery of the mind some
times means much to health of the
body and the soul, and to the general
success of the person.
So the old Rambler would advise
the 87 graduates of Washington
County to improve their thinking and
to be students of their own thoughts,
and to do their own thinking—think
ing each matter through. There is no
excuse for half-thinking or exagger
ated thinking. But there is success to
those who will think right, think of
ten, think thoroughly and think on
wholesome matters.
Safe Driving—
Inspector M. J. McCloud, of Green
ville. who is here every Thursday ex
amining applicants for driving lic
enses. says that the competent mo
torist observes the followig rules.
Drives at speeds safe for conditions.
Exercises control at intersections.
Stays in line of traffic.
Observes traffic when pulling away
from a curb.
An ticipates what others may do.
✓
THIS WEEK'S
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BREAD
12-oz. leaf.... 5s
ROLLS
Weight: 18 Ozs.
Dozes.10c
BUNS
Dozes.10c
HASSELL Bros.
BAKERY
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Turns correctly and from proper
lanes.
Keeps safe distances behind other
vehicles.
Avoids passing other vehicles on
curves and hills.
Yields the right-of-way for doubt
ful situations.
Gives proper hand signals.
Extends courtesies of the road to
drivers and pedestrians.
Maintains his car in good condition
II umorous—
In a humorous vein. Mr. McCloud
aid that the following answers had
been given to questions asked by him
during the examination of certain ap
plicants for driver’s license.
What is a winding road?
Reply: A road where there is a
storm and the wind is blowing hard.
What two cards are you required
to have with you when you drive a
car?
Reply: Security card and resur
rection card.
Have you ever been convicted for
any traffic violation?
Reply: No. sir! Patrolman or police
have never said nothing to me but
"good morning" and "good evening."
How old are you?
Reply: I'se 19.
When were you born ?
Reply: I was born in 1918.
Well, that makes you 23 now."
said the inspector.
Reply: No, sir! I was born in 1818.
"Well, that makes you 123 years
old." said the inspector.
Reply: My father put it in the Bib
le and that is what he put. I loked
In there before I left homo anti that
is what he had down.
What is the safety equipment re
quired on all ears?
Reply: Gas. oil and water.
What is this sign i Chocowinity»?
Reply: I believe that is chocolate
candy.
THANKS
To All Who Attended
Our Opening
Your Continued Friendship
And Patronage Will Be
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