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.
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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
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OCTOBER
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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
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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
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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.
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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
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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
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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
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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.”
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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.