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THE Roanoke Beacon and Washington County News PUBLISHED EVERT 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 at the post office in Plymouth, N. C., under the act of Congress of March 3, 1879. October 29, 1942 'Some circumstantial evidence is very strons"—Tlwreau OCTOBER ■ .-f £&>/29 - clc market crash. 1929. OijiO 30—Columbian Exposition •"SEMI,, closes in Chicago, 1693. 31 —Halloween. <f/f k*: ■ iwv ^NOVEMBER 'v., 1—First Bi.Ush air raid on _ Naples 1943. IC,. 2—Washingtons Farewell &&*<&*> Address to Army, 1 "31 3—Revolutionary army d-s banded, i 783 — 4—First transcontinental air —plane flight in S4 hrs.. 2 ^■iV. mins., 1911 —/ / (0, > ~ WJT V »ervie« Work For Citizens Service Corps To Do At the meeting in Williamston last week to organize this district's Citi zens Service Corps, Plymouth being represented by J. Roy Manning, an interesting statement was made by Mr. Koshka of the Office of Price Administration when urging the citi zens service corps to promote fair ness in the rationing system by checjkingjvceiling^osters, as it would help gain the confidence of the peo ple that the system was designed to help and not to hurt them. Ration ing might be irksome and cause some inequalities, he pointed out, but it is accomplishing more than many real ize. For instance, there are approxi mately 86 billion dollars available for consumer goods this year, but only 69 billion of consumer goods avail able. Were it not for rationing we would not have a chance to buy but would have to bid for the necessities of life, and for everything we bought would have to pay several times its value. By the rationing system, he declared, ‘‘we will not have to hoard or bid for the necessities of life, and we can have a pretty good idea to day what a dollar will buy tomor row.” If the Citizens service Corps ac complishes no more than help to check inflation it will have done a worth-while work. -<j> Voters Should Go To Polls and Vote Next Tuesday, November 3, will be general election day throughout the United States. The predominant interest will be in the choice of mem bers in the House of Representatives, all the present ones being on trial, and of members of the United States Senate, though the terms of only a minority of these expire this year. Some state and county contests have aroused interest that will bring out the voters, but these are said to be comparatively few. One of this country’s analysts of money, market and trade conditions and the minds of the people has fore cast (hat the vote cast in the general election next week will be small, that the voters are showing little interest in results of the election and will not go to the polls. He does predict that some Democratic members of Con gress will be retired and Republicans take their places, but he lives in a state that is considered Republican though it sometimes goes Democra tic. This is the contest in which the soldier may vote and if the absentee soldier vote be large it may influence some results. If the analyst is basing his fore cast of a small vote on the apparent lack of interest in the election by the voters of Washington county h i> probably right. It is Ix^hg dis cu-sed by the people almost hot at all. There are few contests, tvhich ma\ explain it. There is much more interest in buying War Bonds and War Stamps and collecting scrap me tal. and that is to the good. But the voters should go to the polls and vote if only to keep in practice. --$ Taxes Are High and Likely To Go Higher Taxes on incomes are high and may go higher. Authorities who are concerned about raising money for necessary war expenses and for re payment of money being borrowed by the government with interest claim that more tax money must be raised and are trying to devise ways to do it. The problem is not easy. Ordinarily the matter of getting more tax money is simply increasing the property tax rate or the assess able values, but that may be done only by state or local governments. The Federal Government does not in fringe on states' rights of this char acter, although some states occas ionally infringe on federal rights. The Federal government may tax in comes, importations, sales (though it has been modest in this except for luxury goods), licenses, raise money from postal receipts which do not pay the expense of handling the mails and—are there other ways? There's the social security tax, for instance. Many of these taxes are collected from us as we go, such as on sales and imports, and we notice them on ly by occasional growls, but the tax on incomes is not concealed, being collected annually in March or quarterly thereafter if that be de sired. and that hurts more than the hidden sales tax. The tax on wages to be collected each pay day will bring the small wage earner within [he range of the income tax and will cause some howls, no doubt, but af :er the first shock has worn off the protests will be fewer because it will oe in part like the hidden sales tax. Th man whose income is $5,000, 510,000 or even $20,000 a year is said to be better off than the receiver >f the million dollar a year income, because of the heavy surtax. If you do not believe it, get an expert ac countant to do some figuring for you. If no more money can be had from them the smaller itjc<Jbe^ will have to pay. -9 Profiteers Laughing At Rental Ceiling Prices Ceiling prices for rooms, for apartments and for dwelling houses in those cities and towns or commun ities adjacent to a government fort or camp or flying field or the manu facture of essential war materials are far from uniform, to say the least, and often akin to extortion, if reports from several such ceiling price zones are to be credited. Ceiling prices are regulatory in their character and regulations are often regarded by some as infringements upon their rights, to be evaded if ways can be found. Here are some examples: Ceiling prices for the rental of dwelling houses are fixed by for bidding a higher rental than was charged for that house prior to a certain date. But new houses are constructed and houses in which the owners have resided are rented for the first time. The ceiling price regu lations do not apply to these ap parently and usually exorbitant rent als are charged, is claimed. Likewise rooms never before rent ed are rented for the first time and are not affected by ceiling prices, so ' -^ Those Who Demand the Best Know That Here’s a Product Which Can’t Be Beat LIGHT WHITE FLOUR H. E. Harrison Wholesale Co. PLYMOUTH IN STEP WITH JOHNNY DOUGHBOY V£ there is no ceiling and the demand for them in some places is so great that most unreasonably high prices may be and are charged. Again the regulations may fix the maximum that may be charged a lodger but fails to define what a lodger may expect for that maximum charge. Rooms that previously had been let to a lodger at say $1 a day or a night are provided with cots so that two, three, four, five or more lodgers, as many as it will hold, may be accommodated and those wish ing baths are charged an additional sum. It is renumerative for the landlord and he laughs at the price ceiling regulations. There may be other ways of avoid ing the price ceiling regulations on rentals but these are enough to jus tify the comment that because they are lacking in definiteness they are operating unfair, chiefly benefitting the profiteer. ADMINISTRATRIX’S NOTICE Having this day qualified as ad ministratrix of the estate of J. Lloyd Horton, deceased, late of Washing ton County, North Carolina, this is to notify all persons holding claims against said estate to present them to the undersigned for payment on or before the 28th day of October, 1943, or this notice will be pleaded in HELPING UNCLE SAM (Dedicated to the Creswell Schools) O Scrappers bold! Alert and smart! You cheer your dear old uncle's heart The way you've turned for war, all out. To find discarded scrap about. It tones him up to see your zeal, It pleases him whene'er you squeal, "Another find to give the Japs Or send to Nazi-fighting chaps!" The hunt, begun by crack of dawn, Flags not 'til night blacks out the lawn. You scavenge cities, search the town, Tramp the forest, field and meadow brown. The rain drives you not from the road. Tire toil prohibits not your load. The barrow, trailer, cart and mule Are commandeered to help your school. Our village pride is now the dump Of miscellaneous scrap, in lump. Where clashing iron clangs and clinks Foredooming jingoes to the jinx. Our nation’s pride is in your grit, Collecting bombs for Hi and Hit— And, Babies! Will the boys up front Appreciate your scrap-iron stunt! Rev. B. WOOD GAITHER. Creswell, N. C., October 17, 1942. bar of any recovery thereon. All persons indebted to said estate are requested to make immediate pay ment. _ This 28th day of October, 1942. DOROTHY N. HORTON, o29 6tAdministratrix. iiiiiiiiii[iiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiim WINNERS OF WAR BONDS AND STAMPS AT FIRST DRAWING, TUESDAY, Oct. 27: $25 War Bond .... Miss Betty Beam $5 in War Stamps. Mr. S. F. Darden $1 in Stamps. Mrs. Claude Jones Jr. Drawing Every Tuesday Buy Your War Stamps From the Follow ing Merchants lor Your Chances at the $31 in Prizes Given Every Week lllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllliiiiiiiiiiiimiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiimiiiiiiiiiiiiiii i House Chevrolet Co. 1 Plymouth Furniture Co. I Norman Furniture Co. | L. S. Thompson Western Auto | Associate Store Campbell’s Store [ Dave’s Cut-Rate Store E. H. Liverman Winslow’s 5c To $1 Store Manning Motor Co. M. H. Mitchell Furniture Co. | Don G. Davis, Jeweler § Womble's Drug Store Yellow Front Market The Roanoke Beacon Ganderson’s Quality Shop C. E. Ayers C. O. (Shorty) Kelly Southern Hardware Co. Economy Cleaners O. R. Leggett’s Son Keel’s Service Station Central Garage Allen’s Store Scherr’s Dept. Store iiimmnimiimimmmimmmimiimmmmiiiiimimimmHimmmmimNimimilllllllllllHllimimiil l^eligious News j\. and Views By Rev. VV. B. Daniels, Jr. “We Are Not Alone”— Several years ago Paul Muni play er! in a movie entitled "We Are Not Alone.” The theme 1 of this motion pic | ture dealt with a | man and woman I who, when caught | quite innocently in | a chain of circum | stances, could do | nothing to prevent | the miscarriage of 'justice which . brought about their ! deaths. We are not alone. We too are uilcii uem ana Qroxen py lue s cir cumstances. The pressure of forces completely beyond our control may govern what we are and what we do. We are not alone as long as man is a social being, existing in a political and economic society permeated with evil and injustice. This society may form us and break us tragically as it did the characters in the motion pic ture. That is the negative side of “We Are Not Alone.” Dr. Joseph R. Si zoo gives us the hopeful, positive side of the same thought in the fol lowing words: “A Godless man is a hopeless man. Either we are orphan ed by the ages, buffeted by storms, The PUBLIC Forum VOTE FOR BOTH AMENDMENTS To the Editor: Believing I saw three serious dan gers in the proposed constitutional amendment for a new state board of education, I sent into nearly 130,000 North Carolina farm homes last week an editorial appeal to vote "No” on this amendment. Now Governor J. M. Broughton and the state administration have prom ised that in case this amendment is adopted next week, they will submit and support a further constitutional amendment fully correcting and re moving the three dangers which I feared. Under these circumstances, I earnestly urge all men and women to vote an emphatic and positive "Yes" on this constitutional amend ment next Tuesday and also for the one relating to solicitorial districts. CLARENCE POE. Raleigh. N. C. torn by cruel pain, left as those who have played their last card and lost, or we are the children of His care, the chosen of His unending concern. Between one God everywhere and no God anywhere surely there can be no choice. In the heavens, se parated by infinite spaces, the morn ing and evening stars hold their courses. Those stars in the night sky are no more favored, no more the object of His tender care, no more guided on their distant paths than the humblest soul. We are not alone.” WITH r CUSTOMER'S NAME IMPRINTED FREE You mcike up to 100% profit workfrg ful! or poi‘7 time. 9 OTHER BEAUTIFUL ASSORTMENTS^ Ao &r/iev4ence tsicer/ce/ FREE SAMPLES WRITE TC: fev ...„. Attention of Dept. 52 ysassr W»rf»on[y |,y P,nsl-CBUComP«»^ HITS THE SPOT V.,;, ' AMERICA’S BIGGEST NICKEL’S WORTH ^ Robersonville Tobacco Market TO CLOSE Tuesday, November 10 The Robersonville Tobacco Market will officially close on Tuesday, November 10th. Until then we will be open each day; and to you farmers who have not sold all your 1942 crop, we ex tend a special invitation to sell the rest of your crop with us. A full corps of buyers, representing every known company, will be on the market until it closes; and we’ll guarantee to get you the top dollar for every pound of tobacco sold with us. We Sincerely Thank You We wish to take this means to thank our many customers throughout Eastern Carolina for their loyalty, their patronage and the fine cooperation given us this season. We know our cus tomers realized more than the average market price for their to bacco, so take our advice and invest that extra money you made by selling with us and invest it in war bonds and stamps. We’ll see you again next year and, until then, Good Luck! Red Front and Central WAREHOUSES ROBERSONVILLE, N. C.
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