THE
Roanoke Beacon
and
Washington County News
PUBLISHED EVERT THURSDAV
Id 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 Count.'
News in 1929 and with The Sun
n 1937.
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December 30, 1943
A New Year’s Resolution
For Our Farmer Folks
(Released by T. W. Earle Manager.
Wood and Land Department of the
North Carolina Pulp Company,
Plymouth, North Carolina)
Farmers and woodland owners
have the opportunity now of
making the best kind of New Year’s
resolution. Now that crops are har
vested there are idle hours on hand
that might be turned into good cash
returns and too, serve your country
in a most patriotic manner.
Pulpwood must be produced in
greater quantities during 1944 than
during the past year. Make it your
first New Year's resolution to help
Uncle Sam in the great war effort by
enlisting and doing your part to make
the Victory Fulpwood Compaign a
success. It is the purpose of this
drive to produce more pulpwood need
ed for the Army, Navy and Marine
war requirements.
Think of the many thousand vital
war requirements needed and which
are and can be, manufactured from
the trees in your woodlot. A list of
all of these essential products and
parts would fill columns of a news
paper, but here is a list of a few out
standing ones: smokeless powder,
rayon for parachutes (used by all
flyers), medicinal products (for
treating sick and wounded soldiers,
sailors and marines), blueprint pa
per (for planning submarines, ship?
and planes), containers, detonator
inserts, ammunition wadding, prm
er paper, flare spacers, antitank mine
parts, bomber insulation, Jettison
tanks, litter covers, emergency
stretchers, surgical dressings, delous
ing bags, gas detection arm bands,
laminated fiber helmets, aviators’
vests and raincoats for amphibious
landing forces, map paper (can be
soaked by rainfall or immersed in
definitely in sea water, and after
wards wrung out and dried.) Special
papers for tank commanders and pi
lots to be read during night battles
can be printed with fluorescent ink.
The above are only a few of the
Army, Navy and Marine war re
quirements and there are thousands
of others.
A more dangerous pulpwood short
age will face us at the very opening
of the New Year 1944 than in the
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pervious ones unless every farmer
with a vvoodlot serves his country
with saw, axe, team and truck. Cut
your pulpwood while you have slack
days.
Make pulpwood cutting your first
Xew Year's resolution. It's a pay
ing job for you and a patriotic one.
Enlist the aid of your friends and
neighbors. Contact your nearest
pulp mill and write for their speci
fications and prices. Don't put it
iff—do it now! It's your most im
portant Xew Year’s resolution for
1944!
On Americanism
By Ruth Taylor
The other day I had luncheon with
the two Americans whose opinions I
value most highly. Of different pro
fessions, different backgrounds, dif
ferent faiths, they are alike how
ever in that they give more than lip
allegiance to their common country.
Here are their views on Americanism:
They were in accord that he who
wishes to be a good American must
be that and nothing more. He may
and should respect the traditions of
his ancestors but his lot is cast in
\merica. Those who came here to
'scape the vicissitudes of the Old
World contributed to the common
>ot. From that they drew not only
the best of their own past, but the
best of other peoples' traditions. As
one man put it—America is mixed
pickles. Everything has its own dis
tinct flavor which adds to the general
spiciness. The more perfectly the
blending is done, the better the con
diment. Xo one flavor must be pre
dominant.
We are hetrogeneous people who
are achieving homogeneity—which
means that, coming from dissimilar
origins we are achieving similarity
because we have the common ideal
jf equality of opportunity, of equal
ly of rights for all.
But they went further than this.
They agreed that a good American
does not classify his fellow Ameri
cans by their ancestry—whether the
distinction be of color or of national
rigin. An American is an Ameri
ar, and until he proves himself to
be disloyal, must be considered to be
wrely American—not German-Amer
can, Italian-American, Irish-Ameri
an and so on. He who so classifies
is neighbor is himself withdrawing
nto a clique that is not American.
They condemned wholeheartedly
he criticism of people by groups,
'ointing out that there is no group—
and here is where their broadmind
dness was shown, for each picked
his own group for illustration)—
where there are not corrupt mem
bers. They agreed that the propor
ion was probably the same in each
group and he who condemned a group
for the actions of a few, was laying
Western Drama Will
Play Local Theatre
Friday of This Week
“Overland Mail Robbery”
Features Wild Billiott,
“Gabby” Hayes
Admirers of western drama have
a thrill in store for them when Re
public's latest Wild Bill Elliott star
rer, "Overland Mail Robbery." plays
Friday at the Plymouth Theatre for
a one day engagement.
Wild Bill Elliott portrays an intre
pid Texas Ranger who. when he
learns his friends, the Hartley Fam
ily are in trouble, rides to their res
cue.
Young Bostonian Tom Hartley, ar
riving on a routine errand to deliver
a sum of money to bolster up the fi
nances of his father's stagecoach
fine, learns to his horror that both
his father and brother have been
killed, and the stage line is being
ystematically robbed by a rival line.
When he is himself involved in a
hold-up in which a man is killed.
Tom can't take it. and prepares to
return to Boston, penniless and
beaten.
Wild Bill, however, instills in him
the fighting spirit necessary to ef
fectively cope with the lawless ele
ment, and until he learns to use his
fists. Bill masquerades as Tom and
himself open to equal condemnation.
One said he believed and would
fight for any man who lived up to
his beliefs, that the man he despised
was the one who was not true to his
own faith. He also said that if he
discriminated against any men be
cause of class, creed or color, he
would be denying that all men are
the sons of God. The other quoted
his grandfather as saying that the
essence of true religion was in deal
ing with others as he would be dealt
with— and that he had found this to
be the practical way of life.
No—there isn's anything startling
n this conversation. There is noth
ing with which you and I will not
agree. It is the credo of American
ism—said by two Americans who
realize not only their rights but their
responsibilities in maintaining the
American way of life.
ligious News
and Views
By Rev. W. B. Daniels, Jr.
Making All Things New—
And he that sat upon the throne
said. Behold. I make all things new."
To keep his small son occupied, a
father cut up a map of the world and
asked him to put it together again.
To the father's amazement, the lad
returned with the map put together
perfectly. "How did you do it so
uickiy?” asked the
father. There was
a picture of a man
on the other side,” ,
replied the boy. ‘T |
put the man toge-!®
ther and the world
just came together.”
What an excellent
parable for the New
Year! How many
good resolutions we |
: ake and then for- 1
et them! Better
o concentrate upon one resolution—
he rededication of ourselves to
Christ. First we must put the man
together. That alone will make the
world new.
Many of us could characterize our
spiritual state as Walt Whitman once
did in his intellectual: “I was sim
mering, simmering, simmering. Em
erson brought me to a boil.” Only
; lie grace of God can bring our spirit
ual lives to a boil and that usually
is not by any miraculous change but
by being willing to do that next thing
which in our highest moments we
know God wants us to do.
Eternal Father, who makest all
things new. yet abidest forever the
same; Grant us so to pass through
the coming year that we may in all
things do Thy living will, through
Jesus Christ our Lord.—Forward.
lays elaborate plans to bring the
culprits to justice.
Kiik Alyn has the role of Tom
Hartley and Anne Jeffreys portrays
the leading lady, daughter of a part
ner in tire Hartely enterprises.
George "Gabby" Hayes provides
comedy, and others listed in the cast
are Weldon Hayburn. Alice Fleming,
Nancy Gay. Roy Bareroft. Bud Geary,
Tom London. Jack Kirk. Kenne Dun
can.
Men who ar. skilled in particular
trades are eligible for petty officer
ratings in the Naval Reserve—with
pay up to $126 per month plus all
expenses.
TANK
m Afl II ■ ■ Fighting tanks need
fighting lubricants
—lubricants that will fight heat
keep motor and gears working
smoothly despite tough battle con
ditions. So the U. S. Army uses
Sinclair lubricants for many of its
tanks, jeeps and other mechanized
equipment.
To give your car the same, sure
protection, get Sinclair lubricants
from your Sinclair Dealer. To pro
tect your engine, for example, he
offers Sinclair Opaline Motor Oil.
This famous oil stands up longer and
lubricates better because it is both
de-waxed and de-jellied. Use Sinclair
Opaline to keep your car rolling.
SAVE WEAR WITH
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Office at Kelly’s Economy Auto Supply Store
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Agent
Phone 275-1
Early Flying Trips
Shown Amusingly
In Wall Disney Film
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“Victory Through Air
Power” at Local The
atre Next Wednesday
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Air-minded Americans, meaning
all 130,000,000 of them will be par
ticularly interested in the opening
sequence of “Victory Through Air
Power," the full-length Walt Dis
ney feature coming to the Plymouth
Theatre next Wednesday through
United Artists release. It contains a
humorously contrived history of avi
ation. particularly appropriate this
year, which is the 40th anniversary
of the Wright Brothers’ historic flight
at Kitty Hawk, N. C.
With typical Disney deftness, the
casual unconcern of the world of 1903
in the Wrights' heavier-than-air
flight of 120 feet is pictured. The
Dayton newspapers (the home town
of the Wright brothers) found the
only newsworthy item in the accom
plishment to be the fact that Orville
rnd Wilbur were due home for
Christmas.
The first transcontinental flight is
unreeled with all of Disney’s mas
erful lightness. The year was 1911,
he intrepid airman Calgraith P.
logers took off from Long Island one
wight morning. Fifty-one days
later he arrived in Pasadena. Tire trip
had taken sixty-nine short hops and
fifteen crashes. A special train car
rying spare parts had accompanied
him all along the route. When he
reached California, only one strut and
part of the tail were left of the plane
that started out.
“Victory Through Air Power” was
authored by Major Alexander P. de
Seversky, the famous flier, inventor
and air strategist. He also plays a
part in the film.
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Navy Recruiter To
Be Here January 3
Navy Recruiter D. R. Taylor, of the
New Bern Navy Recruiting Station,
will be located at the Post Office
Building in Plymouth on Monday,
January 3rd to accept applications
for the Waves, V-5 (Naval Aviation',
SRU's, and general service in the
Navy open to 17-year-old young men.
Recruiter Taylor, has briefly list
ed the following information:
General service, Regular Navy or
Naval Reserve, open to 17 year olds
with consent of parents.
Waves, ages 20 to 36, with at least
two years’ high school,
SRU's, the Navy's Ship Repair
Units, now open to men in the draft
ages and up to 50 years of age. Men
in 18 to 38 age group are placed in
SRU through a special voluntary
plan worked out with Selective Serv
ice. All men must qualify for a pet
ty officer rating.
Naval aviation, the V-5 program,
has been reopened to men 17 and 18
years of age. Seniors now in school
may enlist in V-5 and remain in
school until graduation, it was point
ed out.
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Your taxes for 1942 are due
and may be paid at par dur
ing January. You can save
money by paying them before
fhe state schedule of penalties
becomes effective in Febru
ary. Help yourself and the
town by paying now!
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P. W. Brown
Tax Collector for Town of Plymouth
“You mean
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I don’t need S
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any coupons
for electricity?”
That’s right, Mrs. Higgins.
No points, no coupons — no ra
tioning of electricity.
Not that it’s any less important
than food, or fuel, or shoes. In
fact, electric power has rightly
been called the life-blood of war
production.
But our government does ask all
of us to use electricity wisely.
Even though there’s no shortage
in sight, the making of electricity
requires manpower, fuel, trans
portation and critical materials
—things on which war has first
call today.
So, be as careful with electricity
as you are with your coupons.
Use all you need — but need all
you use.
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