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THE Roanoke Beacon and Washington County News \ »M RUSHER EVERT TITER SO AT j In Plymouth. Washington County. North Carolina Ti e i • oke Beacon Is Wash ington County’s only newspaper It was established In 1889, consoli dated with the Washington County New*- 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 matteT a: the • office in Plymouth, N C. under the act of Congress of March 3. 1879. I ' ~ I _ ~~~ North Carolina v \ / PC£SS ASSOCIATION^ Thursday, June 18. 1942 ALMANAC V\*oef klff “Whatever advice you give, JUNE be short" — Horace , 18—,'ar ledared on Eng 3 land, 1312. „19—Baibao fell to Spanish V rebels, 1937. P'20—U. S. military conscrip tion art b-.'roauced, 1940. 21—Frar.ce-Germany l 'on peace negotiations, i 940. ^22—loe ins heavy weight boxing cham pionship 1937. “23—i re'., mer patented 1369, u cJ4—' chn Cabot sights North 3- America 1497. V, XV Service Suppose We Stop and Think Just a Moment Much • f the gasoline now going into the tanks of Plymouth cars came from the battered ^tern portion of a tanker tied up in M.orehead City. The front part of this ship lies at the bottom ! t!;e Atlantic Ocean off the North Carolina coast, where it was sent down several months ago by an enemy submarine. It is understood that more than a dozen lives were lost, and a number of the survivors were horribly burned. Some of them were only released from hospitals within the past few days All of which leads up to observa- j tion that some of us who have kick-1 ed so strenously about gasoline ra-1 tioning might remember the next time we get into air cars to drive a cou ple of blocks i i the movies, a bridge party or to the golf course that more than a dozen men died to get us the gas we are now using. Maybe it is worth it. but it still seems a pretty high price to pay for gasoline for non e--->ential driving. Here Is Your Chance Now Do Your Part! Practically every one of us. at one time or another, has expressed his Father By IRENE SPRUILL While praising mother kind and true For all her love and care, Pray don t forget dear father too. But let him have his share; For he it is who earns the bread, The many bills must pay, Who sees the family clothed and fed And cared for. day by day. Perhaps he toils from morn till night In field or mill or mart. Tit at he may make the burdens light For those so near his heart. By seeing their needs supplied. Or working to this end. Who longs to see them satisfied, And strives to thus attend. Don't wait till father's cold in death To praise his noble life; Twill do more good to use your breath To help him through the strife And usless are those pretty flow'rs You'll lay upon his grave, When there are dark and trying hours His heart some comforts crave. His hands, perhaps, are hard and tough, His garments may be soiled; Of hardships he has had enough As for your good he’s toiled. He's traveled o'er much rugged road And carried burden great So cheer his heart and lift his load Before it is too late. Oh, vain is all that you may say When father's gone from here. Or all the flowers you may lay Upon his grave or bier: Then do the better, wiser thing— I'm sure it's worth while— Your flowers give his praises sing, That you may see his smile! willingness to do his part in the na tional war effort. This week we re ceive another challenge to our ex pressed intentions in the call to col lect all old rubber and turn it over to the nearest filling station. This is not just another routine call to be answered sometimes when we ‘'get around to it,” and there should be no hesitance or reluctance on our part to do this thing, and to do it right now. President Roosevelt has set aside this week and next as the time to gather all the scrap rubber possible and turn it over to the nearest fill ing station, from where it will go di rectly into our war preparations. This rubber is desperately needed, or ra ther information as to just how much old rubber is on hand is desperately needed, in order that plans for the future may be worked out with some degree of assurance that they can be carried out. These plans include all phases of the war effort. If a sufficient amount of rubber for reclaiming can be col lected, then it is possible that the Army may relent in its attitude that until a sufficient supply of rubber is in sight there will be none for civilian use. It may mean a few tires for some of our cars; it may even elimi nate the necessity of rationing gaso line to conserve rubber. Certainly, it means that bombs will sooner fall on Berlin and Tokio from American planes, that Ameri can tanks can meet those of the Axis on a better-than-ever basis. Add all this together it spells "V-I-C T-O-R-Y” in capital letters. We here in Washington County have our chance to do our part; we must not be found wanting. FASTER GAINS WITH LESS FEED CONCRETE on Feeding floors made with clean, long-lasting concrete will help you raise more pork for war needs. They save pigs by beeping them cleaner and healthier—save feed otherwise trampled in the mud—insure faster gains, more pork per bushel of feed. Long-lasting concrete im provements cost little to build —need few if any “critical ma terials." You’ll find valuable suggestions in free booklet, “Permanent Farm Construc tion.” Paste coupon on penny postal for your copy. You can do the job, or ask your cement dealer for names of concrete contractors. •PORTLAND CEMENT ASSOCIATION! • n Bara Floors; Q P otra~ • cations ; Q Silos ; I □ Tanks and Troughs; I rj Walks, Steps; □ M ilk I Houses; Q Milk Cool * inf Tanks ~ * Floors; ^ j Dams; l^1 : gCTk a 1 Concrete. State lJlanters Bank Bldg., Richmond, Va. Please send me “Permanent Farm Construction.” Am particular!? interested in improvements checked. Name Street or &. F. D. No. can. State i Our Great America jg fylh/on AM ERICAfJ PBOPLe EMiOy THE USE of AvpRcrrfiMAmy HALF OF ALL TAB k. TELEPAOAEG /A-me \f/ORLD / It IMERE ARE MORE 1MA^ 5IX MILLION BOOKS IN "THE LIBRARy OF COMPRESS — AT THREE HOURS PER BOOR. EIGHT HOURS PER RAY, IT WOULD TAKE OME MAN OVER 6000 YEARS TO REPP THEM / "THE EvrriRE LANP AREA OF OERMANV IS LESS TMAH ONE-FOURTH AS LARGE AS THE 630,000,000 ACRES OF FOREST LARD IN THE U S A / The Mobilization Of Man Power By Ruth Taylor The mobilization of man power doe* not mean the taking of train ed labor and moving it from place to place where it is needed. You and I, our families, our neighbors are all part of the man power needed in this crucial hour. The energies of all the people of the whole nation must be focused upon the one task of winning the war as quickly as possible. This is an all out war. We must convert industry from the produc tion of consumer goods to weapons of war—and that calls for men and women to do the job. It means the shifting of millions from peace time production to war work. It means that every last one of us has work to do. The call for man power does not mean workingmen alone. It includes all men and all women. It embraces farmers, lawyers, trained business !men. It means that women must take over jobs to release men for the fighting forces and for heavy war work. It means that women must go into the factories, onto the farms and into the offices. Mobilization of man power is not a socialized conscription of any one class. It is an evidence of the will ingness of free men and women to defend that freedom. Each and ev ery one of us must work. We must keep everlastingly at it, and then go right on. There is no relief in a war. There is no time for alibis or excuses, for shirking or stopping to argue over what should or should not be done. This is the war of every one of us. Yo one class, creed or color can es cape its full and equal responsibility. We must mobilize as free men or we will be regimented as slaves under a foreign master. Can any individual who shirks his or her share face again the brave men who are fighting for us all over the world. As our armed forces fight to keep the enemy from these shores, to avert for us the devastion with which the nations of Europe have been laid waste, we must do our work on the battle line of production. There is something each and evry one of us can do. We must be ready to vol unteer for service--for this is every body’s war! BEIXEAU WOOD RENAMED Belleau Wood, a famous battle ground of World War I, was re named Bois de la Brigade de Marines honoring U. S. Marines who captured it from German forces in June, 1918. The Navy trains mobile hospital units staffed by two doctors and four hospital corpsmen for use in epidem ics and emergencies. When a Navy doctor is commission ed he is given intensive training In tropical diseases, and problems of I submarine and aviation activities. The tower at the new Medical Center, Bethesda, Md.. is 20 stories high and shaped like a Geneva Cross. The imposing lobby of the new Navy Medical Center, Bethesda, Md., is lined with Vermont marble trim med with white bronze Rambling ...About By THE RAMBIiER CHINA Hi - v ymUBTChlNS RELIEF LOOKS TO US/ In the first World War the Chinese people were asked to give $100,000 to the U. S. War Fund. They gave instead $1,425,000, or 14 times the amount asked of them. In 1937 when the Ohio and Mississippi were vic tims of the most disastrous floods in their history, the Chinese people, who have tragic and extended knowl edge of floods, raised more money for the relief of American flood vic tims than any other foreign country except Canada. • * * Now Americans are being ask ed to arise $7,000,000 for the re lief of the people of China. Thir ty-five per cent of the total fund will be expended upon the health and medical treatment of the Chinese people. The rest will be devoted to such worthy causes as the care of orphans, the relief of the homeless and destitute victims of Japanese in vasion, the training of skilled workers and general economic reconstruction. » * • W’ill we remember that China did 14 times what was asked of her; shall we forget that the Chinese contrib uted more for our flood relief than any other country save one? And if we forget these things, surely we’ll remember that for five long years China has been fighting our battle, just as surely as she has been fight ing her own. We know that very definitely now . . . since Pearl Har bor and with Japanese successes be fore us. * • * As this is written, compara tively speaking, nothing has been done in our county to as sist in raising this quota. Sure ly we could contribute a few pennies to alleviate the suffering in this country. Our self-suffi ciency, our complacenc3r and our indifference probably prevents us from realizing the urgency of the call. A few individual con tributions have been made and loose collections have been tak en when most of the audiences were composed of women and children. Otherwise no concert- | ed action has been taken. * * * To be sure, the requests for pub lic donations to this cause and that has become so frequent that we have become calloused to them, but in 1 this case the humanitarian appeal alone would overwhelm, when we consider the anguish and despera tion of China for five long years . . with a tiger at her throat. Our read ers, if we have any, may consider that we are placing too much empha- ; sis on Chinese relief but to us many of the sources to which we contrib ute should be relegated to the rear until after this quota is raised. It should take precedence over all oth er “giving'’ for the destiny of China and her people is so closely inter woven with our own that we can’t fairly and conscientiously differen- j tiate betwreen the two. We should re member, whatever we do to strength- i en China morally, and physically, is an investment in our behalf. “Rayshun” or "Rashun” . . In gen- j eral conversation our attention has been called to our old-fashioned pro nunciation of the much-used word “ration”. In fact, we have never heard it pronounced otherwise, un til recent radio commentators gave it its new-fangled pronunciation. However, Webster gives either pro nunciation as correct, leaving the choice to the user. We were interest ed to learn, this week, that Leon Henderson, OPA administrator, is as old-fashioned as we, ourselves, and he, too, says “rashun.” Mark Twain once said, “Let us be thankful for the fools. But PAY YOUR TOWN oi PLYMOUTH TAXES Unless your Town of Plymouth taxes are paid by July 1, your prop erty is subject to advertising for de linquent 1941 taxes. Please pay now and avoid this inconvenience and embarrassment, as well as addition al expense. P. W. Brown Tax Collector • Town of Plymouth for them the rest of us could not succeed." In more recent days someone said, "These days a cheerful idiot is enviable.” Well we don't consider that we have succeeded and certainly we are not always cheerful, so we are wondering just what conclusion we should draw from the above remarks. Our friends need not bother to advise us. * * ♦ We read some place, some where, that if worry turned hair gray, the whole world would be white by now. Our world perspective is ex tremely limited, however, an un welcome mirror or casual statements from friends absolutely void of adroitness remind us that we need not stir far to see or feel an abund ance of gray hair. Conspicuous waste, once the symbol of personal wealth and prosperity, is now the mark of an unpatriotic wanton. It is quite evident in our daily ob Rendering Service To Reliable Principles RICHARD WEST WRECKING CO. Cutting Glass a Specialty ALWAYS BUYING Iron - Steel Metal - Rubber R. D. West, Mgr. Phone 2183 Box 247 PLYMOUTH, N. C. serrations. • * » Wr don't like George Bernard Shaw's stuff, probably because we can't follow him, but the following was most certainly well said: "Life is a flame that is always burning it self out: but it catches fire again ev ery time a child is born.” Helen Keller, totally deaf and blind, certainly has a unique con cop:, m of death. Wish it were our privilege to have that positive as surance t at death v mild be so kind. Miss Keller says: "I am conscious of the splendor that binds all things of earth to all things of heaven; im mured by silence and darkness, I possess the light which shall give me vision a thousandfold when death sets me free.” A Better Buy In Blends Blended Whiskey 5"' Cram W*o i ONLY $ 8G Proof FULL PINT 52.15 FULL QUAftf GOODERHAM&WGRIS LTD., PEORIA, ILL “KEEP 'EM ROLLING” Keep Your Car in Tip-Top Shape—Now and for She Duration ■k Your car is more valuable than ever now. Keep it in tip-top shape for the duration. Our wartime Sfervfce plan will keep it in fine running condition if you will just bring it in regu larly for lubrication and check ing up. You can depend on us to keep it at the peak of effic iency. so bring it in today. ★ HO USE CHEVROLET CO. Phone 279-6 Plymouth, N. C. LET US l'UT TOUR CAR IN SHAPE for THE DURATION ★ Car Renewing Plan * Tour present car must last for the duration. Our Car Renewing Plan will put it in the peak of condition. Now you can use our budget payment plan to get com p 1 e t e overhauling from bumper to bumper; touch up or repaint job; ev erything your car needs to put It in top shape. Drive In for estimate today. EAST BUDGET ★ PAY AS YOU DRIVE ★ ASK ABOUT OUR TERMS inCRiiSE HOUR PiRRUT PRGHYS WITH sTAumn SULPHUKS Field work conducted dur ing the past 5 years in the peanut producing areas has proved that peanut growers will obtain a profit able increase in the yield of peanuts and hay through dusting with Stauffer Sulphur. Increased yields are due to prevention of Leaf-Spot disease and injury to foli age by the Leafhoppers which attack your peanuts. The government’s request for increased peanut pro duction makes it the duty of every grower not only to increase his present acreage but also to increase his yield per acre by dusting with Sulphur. Your Cour.ty Agent is fully acquainted with the peanut dusting schedule for your area. The following Stauffer Suiphur Products will meet every condition that might arise in your peanut dusting program: "Perfection" Brand Dusting Sulphur (93% sulphur, 7% conditioning agent). "Magnetic" Pyrethrum-Sulphur Dust (Use in case of heavy infestations of Leafhoppers). "Magnetic" Sulphur-Copper Dust. I STAUFFER CHEEIfilCRIi GO. I ‘ 420 LEXINGTON AVENUE, NEW YORK CITY % SEE YOUR NEAREST STAUFFER DEALER, OR WRITE FOR LITERATURE
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