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THE Roanoke Beacon 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) jme year->C60 Six months- -7o 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. I Thursday, May 6. 1943 Sound Advice for 1943 Graduates Principal T. J. Collier, of the Cres well High School, offered some very sound advice to boys and girls leav ing high school in presenting diplo mas to the 22 members of the graduating class at his school last Thursday night. His remarks ap ply not only to the seniors of his school, and it is in the hope that they may gain wider circulation that we present them here this week Prin cipal Collier said: and “It is a custom when presenting diplomas to accompany them with a few well-chosen words of advice, to draw for the gradutees a blue-print by which they can build successfully the structure of their lives. I do not claim for myself the ability or the wisdom necessary to draw such a blue-print for you young people. Furthermore, the chaotic condition of the world in which you must find your places is such that no mere mortal can foretell the future or accurately judge the present. Changes are too great and too frequent. We are forced to alter our sense of val ues too often. But the principles which I would give you tonight to take with you throughout your lives will furnish you with a skeleton out line to which you can safely build. “First, I would have you be hon est. That, boys and girls, is a com modity of which the world has no surplus. Centuries ago a Greek philosopher, Diogenes, went search ing with a lantern for an honest man. That search still goes on. The world needs and is looking for honest men and women. Let your honesty so shine on your countenance that no lantern will be needed to find you. “Then I would have yo>u acknowl edge the importance of making your lives: lives of service. Because I want you to be happy, I am telling you that happiness is won, not by centering vour efforts on advancing your own status—not by serving yourself, but by serving humanity. Look around you—search the pages of history—and you will find the truly happy people and the truly great people those who have devoted their efforts to helping others. Re member the greatest man of all time, Jesus Christ was also the greatest servant. “Finally, I would give you a belief in God and would have you cling to your faith in Him through every trial and in every difficulty. This is one foundation on which you can safetly depend, for He doesn't change. He is with you in every circumstance. “You are making a departure to night from the shelter of this insti tution and in many cases from the shelter of your homes. All of us will be judged by the way you conduct yourselves, for the influences of your homes, your school, and your com munity have made you what you are. We will watch, rejoicing with you in happiness, suffering with you in sorrow or pain. Creswell School has been a home and a mother to you, and she sees you leave tonight like parents watching the figure of their son or daughter fade in the distance, longing to call him back to their pro tection, but instead lifting an arm in farewell and blessing and saying, ‘Go with God.' " The Farm Bloc and You {P. M.) The farm block's victory over the Farm Security Administration in Congress involves you as well as the poor tenant farmer in the South. It FSA you may have less to e3t next involves you because without the FSA you may have less to eat next Winter than with it. The FSA pro gram has provided the brightest hope for increased food production. All studies show it is the small and me dium-sized farmers who can con tribute most to increased food pro duction—but many of them can t do it without the FSA's kind of help. But this issue involves the heart HAD TROUBLE FINDING TIRES EVEN WITH A CERTIFICATE? WE HAVE AMPLE STOCKS IHCLUDIHO j 6.00-16'S^ ■■■■ / a a iV We have ample stocks of tough, safe-riding, pre-war quality Silvertowns. Even in the popular 6.00-16 size! Bring your certificate to us today. If you haven't one, let us inspect ycur tires. If they can't be recapped, we'll help you with an application for new tires. KELLY'S ECONOMY AUTO SUPPLY w. C. HALL, Mgr. Phone 275-1 AMERICAN HEROES| BY LEFF Marine Pvt. 1st (.lass M. G. Hoffman, survivor of the LI. >. 5. QUINCY, was a loader on one of tier big puns until she was .-link during an engagement with the Japs off Savo Island in the Solomons. Hoffman is typical of the crew. You are helping Hoffman and his buddies when you buy bonds during the Second \Yar I nan Drive. Thev give their live* You hnd vour money. as well as the stomach. It involves the simple question of whether we will let the big farmers, like Oscar Johnson and Ed O’Neal, kill off the only agency for helping the small farmers, the tenants, and the share croppers. Johnson and O'Neal, whose recom mendations have been followed by the House Appropriations Commit tee in voting planters of the South who want cheap labor and penty of it. The more people FSA helps to be come successful, independent farm ers, the fewer good share-croppers there are for Johnson and O'neal. It's as simple as that. But these little guys don't have big powerful lobbies representing them in Washington. So it's up to you. Write to your Congressman and tell him you want the FSA continued. The PUBLIC Forum MOTHER'S DAY One of the least that you read about and one of the most significant of our national days is Mother’s Day. America’s modem method of ob serving the day is only 28 years old. May 9th, 1914, President Wilson issued a proclamation, urging the adoption of the idea conceived by Miss Anna Jarvis, following the death of her own mother. Thus the 2nd Sunday in May was set apart as Mother’s Day. Flags were to be raised in honor of it and flowers to be worn in memory }f mothers. Also a deed of kindness as a duty of the day should be done for one’s own mother if posible, or to some mother, who perchance had no one to remember her on this day, which honors all mother’s here, and be yond. Our Martyred President McKinley, always wore a white carnation in honor of his mother, who had long ago “crossed the bar.’’ So, this favorite flower had been chosen as our national Mother’s Day badge, white for the dead and for the living, red. The carnation is the most purely fragrant and lasting flower that blooms, therefore symbolizing how pure and lasting our love should be for each other. The observance of Mother’s Day each year is more widely interpreted. Special boxes of candy, fruit, pres ents and messages in various ways, are dispatched for the pleasure oi mothers. While on the mounds of departed mothers, flowers are placed as a token of honor to her memory. People that are living in this cen Dr. Ralph McDonald Speaks at Creswell Program Last Week Climax of Commencement Programs;; 22 Gradu ates Get Diplomas -Q> Creswell.—Dr. Ralph McDonald was chief speaker at the commence ment exercises here Thursday night of last week, when diplomas were awarded to 22 membjrs of graduat ing class. Special awards were also made to outstanding members of the graduating class by Principal T. J. Collier. The schol term was brought to a close with the class night exer cises Friday night. Diplomas were presented to the following graduates by Principal Collier: Violet Mae Ambrose, Mar jorie Barber, Mary Bateman. Evelyn Belanga, Helen Onedia Davis. Maude Grace Holton, Eula Lee Patrick. Ed na Furlough. Louise Snell. Alethea Odell Phelps, Katy Wells Spruill, Clarence Barber, Guilford Furlough, Cherlock Albertson, Charles Gaither, VV. C. Ledford, John Huf'ton, Wal ter Peele, Billy Spruill. Sam Woodley, John Stillman and Wilford Spruill. Certificates of honor were pre sented to the following: Valedic torian. Samuel Woodley: salutator ian, W. C. Ledford: best home economics student, Irene Spruill: .best agriculture student. Zephie | Phelps; best girl athlete, Eula ath tury, haven't entirely departed from early tradition. This, like other festivals may be traced to ancient times. In England the people once observed the 3rd Sunday of Lent as Mother's Day Children that were away from home were required to visit parents, es pecially mothers on this particular day, carrying presents, of different kinds, and sometimes rich cakes, knowing that mother would cut and return half of the cake with her blessing. This was one way of keep ing aglow filial family ties. Long ago in Asia Minor, Rhea, "great mother of the God" was wor shipped. She was portrayed as trav eling in a lion drawn chariot, and her emblems were the lion and the oak and pine trees. So, w'e see that it was majesty and might, celebrated in her, and not mother love. Although mother love is indeed older than the Christian faith. In Greece and Rome these rights were associated with the feast of Hilaria held on the Ides of March. This, like other pagan festivities have been supplanted by the church since the Christian ages. So, let's all observe the sacredness of Mother’s Day. MITTIE E. FAGAN. Dardens. N. C. MR. FARMER! BRING US WHAT PEANUTS YOU HAVE Left Over From Seed Whether SHELLED or UNSHELLED And We Will Buy Them! WE WILL PAY Ceilina Prices WULIAMSTON PEANUT COMPANY OBSERVATION Post Schedule Following is the Plymouth Obser vation Post schedule, from 8 a.m. Saturday. May 8, to 8a.m. Saturday, May 15: Saturday, May 8 8 to 10 a.m. _Lulladeen Jordan 10 to 12 noon _ Mrs. L. E. Griscom 12 to 2 p.m. - Mrs. M. J. Davenport 2 to 4 p.m._Mrs. Alban Papineau 4 to 6 p.m. _Lucille Cashwell 6 to 8 p.m. _Iris White, capt. 8 to 11 p.m._Archie Tetterton 11 to 2 a.m _R. E. Dunning Sunday, May 9 2 to 5 a.m._George Barden 5 to 8 a.m._L. E. Peele, capt. 8 to 10 a.m._Ruby Gurkin 10 to 12 noon _ Jean Losh 12 to 2 p.m._Mrs. Ted Blount 2 to 4 p.m._Mrs. W. H. Johnson 4 to 6 p.m. __ Mrs. Zeno Lyon 6 to 8 p.m._Agnes Davis, capt. 8 to 11 p.m. _ Dave Kulman 11 to 2 a.m._ Eddie Getsinger Monday, May 10 2 to 5 a.m._J. W. House 5 to 8 a.m._W. F. Stubbs, capt. 8 to 10 a.m. __Mrs. P. M. Arps 10 to 12 noon_ Mrs. E. H. Duvall 12 to 2 p in Mrs. P B. Bateman 2 to 4 p.m. ___ Mrs. Carlyle Doughtie 4 to 6 p.m. . Mrs. Benton Liverman 6 to 8 p.m. _ Virginia Winesett, capt. 8 to 11 p.m. _ Jack Willoughby 11 to 2 a.m__ Earl T. Phelps Tuesday, May 11 2 to 5 a.m. _ Charles Hill 5 to 8 a.m._Bobby Pierson, capt. 8 to 10 a.m. __ Mildred Dawley 10 to 12 noon _Love joy Weede 12 to 2 p.m. ___ . Miss Nick Ayers 2 to 4 p.m._Mrs. Clara Carlisle 4 to 6 p.m._Mrs. S. D. Davis 6 to 8 p.m. . Katherine Midgett. capt. 8 to 11 p.m._W. R. Hampton 11 to 2 a.m._Dewitt Darden Wednesday, May 12 2 to 5 a.m._Lin Swain 5 to 8 a.m. __ Arthur E. Forbes, capt. 8 to 10 a.m._Mrs. Bessie Brown 10 to 12 noon Mrs. W. H. Smith 12 to 2 p.m. _Clarice Bateman 2 to 4 p.m. ___ Mrs. O. S. Armstrong 4 to 6 p.m. _ _Joyce Bailey 6 to 8 p.m. _ Bertie Dutten, capt. 8 to 11 p.m. _ Frank B. Dew 11 to 2 a.m _Jack Horner Friday, May 14 2 to 5 a.m._Maurice Bateman 5 to 8 a.m. __ Leon Sexton, capt. 8 to 10 a.m._Gwen Hurley 10 to 12 noon Mrs. Hal Williford 12 to 2 p.m._Mrs. W. M. Darden 2 to 4 p.m._Mrs. Jack Booker 4 to 6 p.m._Catherine Bryson 6 to 8 p.m.__Mrs. Jack Read 8 to 11 p.m._Jim Swain 11 to 2 a.m._W. A. Davidson Saturday, May 15 2 to 5 a.m._Rev. B. E. Taylor 5 to 8 a.m. ___ L. S. Thompson, capt. lete, Eula Lee Patrick; best boy ath lete, Robert Bateman; and best citi zenship, Billy Liverman. Marshalls for the commencement program were: Billy Liverman. chief; Selma Furlough. Lucille Davenport, Lydieth Halsey, and Robert Bateman. In his speech to the large gather ing, Dr. McDonald addressed his re marks to the seniors, explaining that the means by which the democratic way of life can be prepetuated is through education. He reminded them that! this was an hour of great responsibility for them—one in which everything civilization has looked forward to for 2,000 years was swing ing in the balance, and that the fu ure safety of the world rested upon he youth. Branding these youth as clean ninded and courageous, and stating .hat the barriers of space and time are no real essence, he declared the night’s program was closely and fun damentally related to winning the war. The youth of today will wage a complete war for the freedom of mankind. By this freedom, he said he meant freedom from ignorance— the fifth freedom, without which no other could exist. Dr. McDonald declared the war had a dual character. On the sur face, of course, it is a military war, involving planes, ships, submarines, sacrifice of homes and lives. But it is also a cultural war. a war between two ways of life, between two sets of ideals, two philosophies; between the Axis way of life and the Christian nations’ way of life. He described wmm-—t..*1 * •.*——■ the culture of Axis nations as preda tory, feeding upon other nations; while the United Nations' philosophy is the Christian way of life. Since these cultures can never live toge ther, one must be destroyed. The speaker outlined the five dif ferences in the ways of life of the contending forces. The first differ ence was in the relationship between the state and the individual; second, in the concept of personal liberty; third, in belief in race superiority; fourth, in their ideas of national destiny; and fifth, in their entire philosiphies of life. He declared we must win this war —or these wars, military and cul tural. Unless we do, everything we hold dear will be lost: and he said that if the public schools fail, then the struggle will be lost. He con cluded his Impressive address with the poem. ' Victory,” by Alfred Noyes. 650 TABLETS. SALVE. NOSE DROPS RESOLUTIONS OF RESPECT Whereas; It is with deepest regret and heartfelt sorrow that we record the passing of Brother Guy R. Waters; realizing that a vacant place is left in our midst which cannot be filled; therefore be it Resolved; That Plymouth Local 356 T. B. P. S. & P. M. W. extend to the bereaved family our most sin cere sympathy, and that the original of these respects be mailed to the family. Resolved; That a copy be sent to The Roanoke Beacon; the local paper; and a copy to The Journal; the official publication of the International Brotherhood Pulp, Sulphite and Paper Mill Workers; for publication. Resolved; That a copy be spread upon the min utes of our next regular meeting, and that, with bowed heads, we thank God for the privilege of knowing him and that he was our friend and brother. JAS S. MIZELLE, Secretary. PLYMOUTH LOCAL 356 Brighten Up Your Home With . . . Summer F urniture ★ ★ ★ Fiber Rugs, and Wicker Living Room Suits - New Floor Coverings in All Materials - Occasional Tables - See Our Line FIRST. Quality Furniture - Cheap Prices NORMAN FURNITURE COMPANY James W. Norman Plymouth, N. C. WATCH HIM REACH FOR BAMBY BREAD He knows there is a taste thrill in every slice of BAMBY Enriched Bread. It’s Enriched with the Vitamin B-l, Niacin and Iron he needs. BAMBY Enriched ' I BREAD |
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