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THE Roanoke Beacon 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-11.50 Six months_ .75 Advertising Rates Furnished Upon Request Entered as second-class matter at the post office in Plymouth, N. C„ under the act of Congress of March 3, 1879. Thursday, July 2. 1942. *nd I r r,t,ar ”r I he ripest fruit first falls —Shakespeare JULY 2— Lincoln approves act lor construction ot Northern Pacific Railway. 1864. 3— Branch U. S. Mint estab lished at San Francisco. 1852. 4— Independence Day: first American tarifl act passed, 1787. 5— New York delegates withdraw from Constitu tional Convention. 1787. S—JohnHuss burned for her esy, 1415. 7— U. S. occupies Iceland. 1941. 8— Declaration of Independ ence read to American Army. 1776. WNU Su»it» Little Likelihood of Revolt in Germany Writing in the American Mercury, Albert A. Brandt, a German profes sor who left the Reich after Hitler came to power, says that the Nazis long ago considered the possibility of a revolt inside Germany and made elaborate preparations for dealing with it. Dr. Brandt goes into convincing detail in describing these prepara tions. According to him. 50 divisions of the dread Schwarze Korps have been stationed at strategic points in side the Reich, and are ready to deal brutally with revolt on a moments notice. Germany is literally crawl ing with spies who report constantly to the secret police. Old concentra tion camps have been enlarged and new ones built—one. which is com pletely unoccupied as yet. is equipped for more than 100,000 people. The man who planr d all this, and who heads the organization is the infam ous Heinrich Himmler—a man who looks like a mild schoolmaster and who has the temperament and the characteristics of the cruelest and craftiest savage. Literally millions of people have died because of Himm ler > policies—-and many thousand; of those people were Germans who held or were suspected of holding anti-N'azi sympathies. This indicates some of the difficul ties that lie in the way of revolt in side Germany. If revolt does come on a wide scale, it will be because the people are so desperate they are willing to risk mass suicide—or be cause Germany military forces sus tain terrific defeats and lose their prestige and power, ft revolt does come, the Schwarze Korps, whose uniform insignia is a skull and cross bones, will see that the streets of the Reich run with blood. -$ “Retailers (or Victory" Campaign This Month During the entire month of July, a Retailers for V ictory” campaign will take place. The purpose is to give War Bonds and Stamps the biggest promotional push ever extended to any cause by American retailing. Here in Plymouth, the merchants are planning to cooperate in every way possible. The Treasury believes that from July on, $1,000,000,000 worth of War Stamps and Bonds can be sold each month, on a purely vol untary basis. Retailers are expected to make up a large proportion of the total sales. Objective of this month-long cam paign will be push bonds and stamps so hard through window and inside store displays, through salutes and messages in newspaper advertiseing, through expanded efforts to sell bonds and stamps to employees and to stim ulate those employees, in turn, to sell at least stamps to consumers that, as a result, each retailer will sell bonds and stamps aggregating as close to 4 per cent of store sales during July as possible. July will simply mark the start of this gigantic endeavor. Each month thereafter, for the duration, the re tailers will continue to promote bonds and stamps, advertise bonds and stamps, and sell bonds and stamps. Chain stores as well as independent stores will participate. And every store will be doing it without a cent of profit to itself. This campaign is your campaign— ! it is part of the job of financing a war for your freedom and your very existence. When you shop, take all or part of your change in stamps. Buy as many bonds as you possibly can. Each sale made means more bullets, planes and ships to fight the enemy. And if we buy them volun tarily, we will not have the compul sory sales that loom as the alterna tive. -« Battle for Survival at Home American retailing, small and large, today faces an extremely dif ficult battle for survival. That bat PEANUT GROWERS! UIITH STRUTTER SUbPHURS The Government has requested you to increase your peanut production by more than two and a half times your normal yield in order to produce more vegetable oils so urgently needed in the war effort. The cheapest, most effective way to produce maximum yields of peanuts and hay is to “Keep ’em dusted” during these next few weeks with Stauffer Sulphurs. Three to four applications of “Perfection” brand Ousting Sulphur at 2-week intervals will give am ple protection against leafspot and leafhoppers. In case of severe infestation by leafhoppers, use ‘Magnetic” Pyrethrum-Sulphur Dust for a quick kill. Follow this one week later with an applica tion of our sulphur dust to check the next brood. Growers should let vines dry thoroughly before shocking because the use of sulphur increases the amount of foliage as well as nuts. The following Stauffer Sulphur Dusts, available in your area, will meet every peanut dusting problem: “Perfection” Brond Dusting Sulphur (93% sul phur, 7% conditioning agent). ‘ Magnetic” Pyrethrum-Sulphur Dust (use in case of heavy infestations of leafhoppers). “Magnetic” Sulphur-Copper Dust. STRUFFER CKEIUCRIi CO. 420 LEXINGTON AVENUE, NEW YORK CITY Founded Upon a Rock (A Fourth of July Meditation) By RUTH ‘And the rain descended, and came, and the winds blew, ant fell not:: for it was founded The testing time has arrived. We will now iearn whether or not we have truly founded this republic upon I the rock. We have taken our demo cratic way of life for granted. Upon national holidays we have assembled to listen to speeches about the past, to stories of the hardships which the founders of our nation went through. We have agreed that we had a great heritage, and then we have gone back ! to our own comfortable way of liv ing. Now is the hour of trial. Prom all quarters of the globe, the forces that hate democracy because it is practi cal exemplification of the monotheis tic doctrine of the brotherhood of man and the fatherhood of God, are [descending upon us. The founders of this country built a nation upon the belief that man is entitled to freedom, that he is capa ble of self-government, that his be liefs are between him and his God alone. Under this doctrine we have prospered until that prosperity has aroused the envy and covetousness of tie is the inevitable result of the gen eral price-freezing order. 'Time” covered the situation ac curately when it wrote: "The re tailer . . . bears the brunt of the whole price-control program. With few exceptions, U. S. retailers were having the horrors. . . . Worst blow was that OPA had denied their plea for a ‘roll-back’ of ceiling dates that would recognize the lag between ris TAYLOR the floods came, and the winds I beat upon that house, and it upon a rock," those who saw only the success and I not the cause, who could not see that a man would work harder for him self than for a master. We, the inheritors of this house, have been negligent. Indifferent, overconfident—and now we are faced with the necessity of fighting to the finish for our democratic way of life. If enough of us believe in democracy, in equal rights for all men. Democra cy will live, no matter what gales may storm down upon as. But we now have to prove that we believe—we have to put democracy into action. We have to give up many of the things we deemed necessary, we have to work harder, discipline ourselves more rigidly, work toge ther in factory and field, fight on the land, on the sea and in the air for the preservation of the freedom with out which we do not wish to live. If we do this, if we put democracy into action, we will win—for the house of our republic is founded upon the rock of freedom for all, and that rock will endure forever and a day. ing wholesale and retail prices. . . . Retailers maintained that their price level was still some 10 per cent be hind their suppliers'. “The National Association of Re tail Grocers called this squeeze ‘dis astrous,’ predicted wholesale bank ruptcies unless OPA could iron out their problems in a hurry. Other re tailers put a finger on the saddest in equity of all: the failure to provide Church A nouncements By Rev. B. W. Gaither Creswell.—The following church announcements are made by the Rev B W. Gaither, rector of St. David's parish: Services will be held each first Sun day morning at 11a m. at St. David's ehurch during the summer months Daily Vacation Bible School at Lake Phelps -$ ! Creswell.—A Daily Vacation Bible I School began classes at the Lake Phelps mission Tuesday afternoon. | The Rev. Mr. Gaither. Miss Lona ; Belle Weatherly and Mrs. Jesse Jewel are teachers. For two weeks school will be conducted from 3:30 to 6 p. m. each day. I a wholesale roll-back is hardest on j I the patriotic merchant who tried to keep the lid on his prices (by aver-! aging his costs), while the one who jumped his prices as fast as his costs rose is rewarded. It is obvious that this “squeeze'’ will be hardest on small merchants' who lack capital reserves which would permit them to operate at a loss for some time. There are literally tens of thousands of stores in this coun try which are in imminent danger of ruin. Retailing, in general, long ago cut its cost of operation to rock- bottom, and it will be unable to further re duce overhead. The typical retail er doesn’t go in for expensive “frills” which can be abandoned now. Un less some provision is made for the “roll-back,'’ he will have no way to meet the problem. Daily Bible School Opens ai Creswell Creswell.—The Creswell Methodist i church began classes Monday in the Daily Vacation Bible school, which will continue through Wednesday of next week. The school will be open each day of the week, except Saturday, from 9 to 11 a. m. Teachers for the respective depart ments are: the Rev. R. N. Fitts, inter- : IMPROVEMENT A noted improvement over the spring crops of lambs sold coopera tively by Edgecombe County farmers in past years was shown recently when 35 out of 109 sold graded choice. mediates: Mrs. R. L. Spruill, assisted by Miss Norma Belanga. juniors; Miss Paulina Pitts, primary: Miss Roberta Fitts, beginners. Children of the town and commun ity are cordially invited to attend. An Appreciation I wish to thank the voters of Wash ington County for their support of my candidacy for the Legislature. During the campaign, I tried to present issues and problems facing us in this county. It is my sincere hope that the victor will deal with these matters wisely and judiciously. Even in defeat, I hope that my candidacy has not been in vain. Sincerely, Edward L. Owens “Send us more Japs!” “Sighted sub-sank same!” Men who talk like this cannot he licked. This is the one big difference between our soldiers and sailors and those of our foes. It is purely American. Such spirit is not built on the battlefield. It is built before the battle ... at the country crossroads . . . in the factory yards ... on the playgrounds ot America. It is the most precious thing we have. We must guard it carefully. The USO is custodian of this spirit when the men are on leave, off duty, away from camp. Hundreds of USO Recreation Centers are maintained to make the men feel “at home” in strange cities and towns, in America and far-off w ar zones. Isn’t it little enough to give them a place to rest, to play games, to smoke, eat, talk, or to write the folks back home? The USO means a great deal to the men in the way of recreation and small comforts. But it costs money ... it needh your dollars to keep it going ... all you can spare. Let’s open up our hearts to these boys of ours! Send your check or contribution to your local USO Com mittee or to USO National Headquarters, Empire State Bldg., New York, N. Y.
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