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Bntorod as Second Class Matter January 19. 1923. at
the Peatoffice at Wallace, North Carolina, under the
Act of March S. 1879. _
Thursday, February 4, 1937
Safety campaigns may save your life on the
highway if you observe the rules proclaimed.
There are people in the world, and around
here, ready to make a profit out of anything.
There are some things that you can’t avoid;
so don’t waste your time trying to dodge them.
RED CROSS RELIEF
In April, 1936, a tornado struck Gainesville,
Ga., inflicting terrific damage. The Red Cross
took over relief work.
So what? When the Red Cross called for
funds for the flood disaster a quota of $260
was set for Gainesville. On
the first day the community
contributed $3,334 and workers
were going after additional
contributions “to show its ap
preciation” of the relief ex
tended last year, reciprocation from apprecia
tive hearts.
The example could probably be multiplied by
citing every city and town where disaster has
brought the Red Cross relief work into play.
Where men and women have experienced over
whelming ruin they appreciate the work of re
lief and are glad to help the Red Cross carry
cut its task.
There is no reason for the people of this
county to wait for disaster to come before ap
preciating the importance of making a gener
ous contribution to flood relief. Let’s be thank
ful we have been spared and say it with dol
lars that will be used to save the lives of men,
women and children.
FIGHTING INFANTILE PARALYSIS
The hearts of 30,000 victims were gladdened
last week by the knowledge that five thou
sand communities held balls on the birthday
cf President Roosevelt, with the proceeds dis
tributed for the treatment of infantile para
lysis cripples. The proceeds are divided, with
seventy percent kept in community and thirty
percent turned over to a national committee for
delivery to the President who will present it to
the Georgia Warm Springs Foundation for the
continuation of its fight against the disease.
President Roosevelt has pointed out that one
out of every three crippled children in the
United States suffers as a result of an attack
of infantile paralysis. Himself a victim of the
disease, it is particularly fitting that the Pre
sident’s birthday is the occasion for a series
of nationwide parties to establish a fund to
be used in fighting it. Largely as a result of
the contributions made by Americans through
the President’s Birthday Ball, the battle is be
ing waged more efficiently than ever although
much remains to be accomplished.
While the tiny virus which causes the dis
ease continues to elude research workers, the
crippled children of the country have received
greatly improved care. Many of them have
learned to walk and to run and some, who were
considered hopeless cripples, have gone back
to work and to a normal existence.
AVERAGE MAN NEEDS HELP
This newspaper is among those who take
pride in the material accomplishments of mo
dern civilization and particularly in the great
strides made in the United States.
We should not in our admiration lose sight
of the steady fact that many of the advantages
cf finance and the comforts of industry are
rot available to the average citizen of this
country. We may boast of our high standard
of living but, when it is examined in the light
cf possibility, it is not anything to become ex
cited about or to be the subject of undue boast
ing.
It seems plain from a study of history that
mankind has made tremendous progress. The
lot of the average human being today is far
superior to that endured by inhabitants of
the globe some years ago. This improvement
is encouraging but should not blind us to the
imperative necessity of broadening the stand
ard of living for all of the people in this coun
try. In fact, eminent thinkers express the idea
that most of the problems of the world it
self will be solved when all peoples enjoy the
real comforts that have become possible
through the developments of modern research
and industry.
WHAT CAUSED THE FLOOD?
Many readers of this newspaper find it hard
to understand just exactly what started the dis
astrous flood that caused such terrible dam
age in the Ohio River Valley and is now cours
ing down the Mississippi River to the Gulf of
Mexico, leaving devastation in its wake.
Weather experts explain the phenomena by
saying that cold, dry air from the polar re
gions met warm moist air from the tropics.
When this happens rain results. When it con
tinues for an abnormal period, the precipita
tion is far above normal. Consequently, the
water flows rapidly into streams, the rivers are
overloaded and leave their banks.
In connection with the present flood it is
pointed out that the rainfall over the Ohio Ri
ver basin and other flood areas was some two
to six times the normal amount during Janu
ary. Some weather reported twenty-three in
ches of rain when the normal was only four
inches. In a number of areas the excess rain
fall varied from nine to more than eighteen
inches above normal.
Readers, hearing constantly about an inch
of rainfall, seldom realize that this means that
one hundred and thirteen tons of water have
descended on a single acre of ground. An inch
ot' rainfall amounts to 75,320 tons of water to
the square mile. \The vast amount of water
that thus reaches the earth is attested by a
fairly accurate measurement of one day’s rain
in an English county, where 670,220,000 tons of
water came from the skies in one day. A rain
in India, some years ago, was measured with
reasonable accuracy and the total fall of wa
ter amount to 7,000,000,000 tons.
So great is the prodigous deluge that bal
ances the evaporation of the water from the
surface of the earth that competent weather
experts estimate that the amount of rain and
snow falling on the entire surface of the earth
averages about 16,000,000 tons a second. It is
easy to see, from such figures, that long contin
ued rains, over any considerable area, will in
evitably cause disastrous floods unless meas
ures are taken to retard the flow of water.
SELECTED
NEED FOR LIBRARIES
Nell Battle Lewis
Thirty-one counties in North Carolina have
no form of library service whatever, which
means that almost two million people in the
State, approximately two-thirds of the popula
tion of North Carolina*are without the advan
tages and pleasures of books. There are a
number of other counties in which library ser
vice at present is very inadequate, and only
fourteen counties have appropriations suffici
ent, according to American Library Associa
tion, to warrant the title “County Library”.
In order to supply North Carolina’s book
starved millions the Citizens Library Move
ment, headed by William T. Polk, of Warren
ton, in conjunction with the North Carolina Li
brary Commission, will ask the General As
sembly of 1937 for $150,000.00 for State aid to
libraries, believing that such aid is as much
a function of government as public education,
public health, or public welfare.
Members of this movement who have studied
the library situation in North Carolina find
that many counties are too small a unit to pro
vide effective book service for all the people.
They think that the supporting region should
be larger, big enough to provide, with State
cooperation, more adequate funds. In deter
mining the size of the region of support, they
say, trade areas, roads, and physical conditions
would be considered.
North Carolina at present has only 87 pub
lic libraries whose combined collection of
books is only 744,369 volumes, a ratio of about
half a book per person in the population serv
ed by these institutions, and a ratio of only
about a fifth a book per person if the collec
. tion could be spread over the whole State.
State aid would mean that there could be
more public libraries, that those which now
exist could be strengthened and their service
expended, that traveling libraries could be sent
into rural section by means of book trucks or
“bookmobiles” like those recommended by the
N. C. Library Commission and now being op
erated in four counties, and that library ser
vice could be enlarged and equalized for the
whole State.
PEOPimORUM
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thie column. Communications shoald
be brief aad carry the writer’s cor
rect name and address which will be
published under the article. N*
communication trill be accepted fat
publication unless it Is signed. The
publishers reserve the ripht to re
ject any article not deemed worthy
of publication.
TEMPERANCE
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To the Editor: .
The true meaning of temper
ance is not understood by ev
eryone. We cannot be temper
ate in the use of something
that is not lawful to use at all.
We can be temperate in the
use of things lawful for us to
use. There are some who be
lieve they can use a little
strong drink and be temperate
in the use of it. But God’s law
teaches us not to use strong
drink at all. It also tells us
if we are unjust in small
things we are in great ones; so
we just as well rob a bank as
to steal a pin.
Prov. 23:20, “Be not among
winebibbers”; Prov. 23:31,
“Look not thou upon the wine
when it is red, when it givith
his color in the cup, when it
moveth itself aright”.
Dear readers,' take warning
1 for you see, God tells us not to
even be where strong drink is
used and not to even look upon
it.
Daniel 1. We get such a beau
tiful lesson how Daniel refus
ed the king’s wine. 1 Timothy,
5:23, says use a little wine for
thy stomach’s sake. Man.vj
stumble here, but listen, there
are two.kinds of wine, the fresh
juice pressed from the fresh
grapes is called wine and is
wholesome for use. This is the
kind of wine the Apostle Paul
told Timothy to use.
Eph. 5:18, “Be not drunk
with wine wherein is excess,
but be filled with the spirit.”
This second kind of wine is the
wine of excess that is made by
a rotting process and is full of
alcohol, that poisons, that par
alizes the brain and causes
crime of every degree. This is
the kind the Apostle said not
drink.
1 Thes. 5:22,23, “Abstain
from all appearance of evil and
the very God of peace sanctify
you wholly.” |
We know strong drink is the
most dreadful evil because it
is back of eighty percent of all
crimes. Knowing this is true
may every official of our coun
ty, state, and country and ev
ery individual be awakened to
the responsibility that is rest
ing upon each, and cooperate
together in our work and do
away with strong drink. We
talk of being in the day of en
lightenment but when we con
sider legalizing strong drink in
our country. What are we en
lightened with? Surely the an
swer is sin to multiply crime.
Those of us who would give our
strength to legalize strong
drink could never claim we
were enlightened with the word
of God. If we ever be our bro
ther’s keeper we must strive to
overthrow every temptation
that would hurt him. How is
it with you, dear readers, is
someone’s blood crying out to
God because you have slew
them?
Prov. 23:32, “At the last it
biteth like a serpent and sting
eth like an adder.
Mrs. McNeal Sholar,
Wallace, Rt. 4.
Gifts by Roosevelt start a
museu mat Warm Springs.
NOTICE OF SALE
Under and by virtue of the
power and authority in me
vested under an order of the
Superior Court of Duplin
County, rendered by R. V.
Wells, Clerk of Superior Court,
and approved by Hon. N. A.
Sinclair, Judge holding the
Courts of the Sixth Judicial
District of North Carolina, in a
Special Proceedings entitled:
“Luther Powell and A. R.
Sloan, Administrators of Dr.
C. S. Sloan, and others, Ex
Parte”, I will sell to the high
est bidder for cash at the old
Bank of Duplin building in
Wallace, North Carolina, on
TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 23,
1937, at- the hour of 1:00 o’
clock P. M., the following
tracts of land:
First: Beginning at a stake
in the Eastern line of Railroad
Street, the Southwest corner
of the Peoples Tobacco Ware
house, and runs thence as the
line of said tobacco warehouse
•
Eastwardly 100 feet to a stake
in said line; thence Southward
ly parallel with Railroad Street
30 feet to a stake, corner of
Lot No. 2; thence Westwardly
parallel with Main Street 100
feet to a stake in the Eastern
line of Railroad; thence as the
said Eastern line of Railroad
Street Northwardly to the be
ginning, and being Lot No. 1
on map of the B. C. Boney pro
perty, recorded in deed book—,
page—, to which reference is
hereby made. Subject to lease
of Mr. and Mrs. C. E. Hussey.
Second: Beginning at a short
straw pine on the road leading
from Cypress Creek Church to
Deep Bottom, corner of Lot
No. 5 in the division of the
lands of W. H. Sloan, deceased,
and runs with the line of lot
No. 5 South 5 East 160 poles to
a stake; thence South 86 East
120 poles to a short straw pine
on the old Cedar road; thence
with the old road Nor. 14 West
62 poles to a stake on the side
of the road in the old Pickett
and Hussey line; thence that
line Nor. 45 East 128 poles to a
lightwood strump in the mea
dow; thence North 27 West 48
poles to a pine, Neil Sholar's
corner near the Reden Brink
ley house; thence with the said
read South 71 East 49 poles to
the beginning, containing 70
acres, more or less.
Third: Beginning at a stake,
J. G. Southerland’s corner on
the South edge of West Main
Street, 191 feet from the cen
ter of the Railroad track and
runs thence as Southerland’s
line parallel to the Railroad
South 16 East 87 1-2 feet to a
stake, corner of lot No. 5 on
Boney Street; thence with that
line South 74 West 35 feet to
the corner of Graham’s lot No.
10; thence with that line North
16 West parallel to the Rail
road 87 1-2 feet to his corner
at the South edge of West
Main Street; thence with said
line N. 74 East 35 feet to the
beginning, which is in accord
ance with the plan of said town
of Wallace.
Fourth: Beginning at a pine,
Ransom Sholar’s corner of the
30 acre tract conveyed to him
by C. S. Sloan, and runs with
the said Sholar’s line North
55 West 105 poles to a pine
stump; thence South 30 East
50 poles to a stake on the edge
of the new road, Sholar’s cor
ner; thence lfith tl\e old line
North 55 West 26 poles to a
small pine, corner of the six
acre tract sold to J. L. James;
thence North 21 East 31 poles
to a stake and pine; thence
North 53 West 21 poles to a
pine stump, J. L. James cor
ner; thence North 14 West 10,
poles to a stake, E. P. Sholar’s
corner; thence his line North
75 W. 40 poles to a pine; thence
North 14 West 40 poles to a
pine on the old cedar road;
thence South 86 East 190 poles
to a pine on the dividing line
between lot Nos. 5 and 6 in the
W. H. Sloan division; thence
that line South 5 East 124
poles to a stake in a pond, E.
O. Sholar’s corner; thence
South 30 East 25 poles to the
beginning, containing 150 acres
more or less.
Each of the above tracts of
land will be sold separately
and the undersigned commis
sioner will sell such right, ti
tle and interest in said tracts
of land as were owned by Dr.
C. S. Sloan at the date of his
death and as are now owned by
his heirs at law. Copies of the
deeds conveying the four tracts
! of land are attached to the pro
ceedings in this cause, and
such title as is conveyed by
suck deeds will be sold.
Advertised this the 20th day
jof January, 1937.
VANCE BEASLEY GAVIN,
Commissioner.
Jan. 28 Feb. 4-11-18 —848
NOTICE OF SALE
Under and by virtue of the
power in me vested under a
judgment of the Superior Court
of Duplin County, rendered at
the January Term, 1937, in $n
action entitled: “I. J. Sandlin,
vs. S. I. Turner, and others”,]
I will sell to the highest bidder j
for cash at the courthouse]
door in Duplin County, on j
TUESDAY, FEB. 16th, 1937,]
at the hour of 12.00 o’clock M., j
the following tracts of land,!
lying and being in Duplin!
County, and bounded and de
scribed as follows:
First Tract: Adjoining the
lands of J. B. Kennedy alndj
others: Beginning at a black
gum on the run of Limestone
Swamp, G. L. Smith’s corner,
and runs a Northern direction
to the road; thence with the
road Eastwardly to a stake on
the road; thence about S. 74 E.
137 poles to a stake on the Tho
mas Carr and L. Houston cor
ner; thence, a direct line about
S. 47 E. to the run of' said
Limestone Swamp; thence with;
the run of said Limestone
Swamp to the beginning,. con
taining 125 acres, more or less.
Second Tract: Lying and be-V
ing in Duplin County, adjoin
ing the lands of A. J. Sumner,
W. D. Houston and others: Be
ginning at a stake on a line be
tween A. J. Sumner and W, D.
Houston, known as the Edward
Smith line, 28 2-3 poles North
of the Trenton road and near
the end of the line, and runs
with said line N. 20 E. 57 1-3
poles to a stake; thence N. 70
W. 82 poles to a stake; thence *
S. 57 1-3 poles to a stake on *
the John I. Jones line; thence
S. 69 E. 82 poles to the begin
ning, containing 30 acres, more
or less.
Advertised this the 15th
day of January, 1937.
VANCE B. GAVIN
Commissioner.
Jan. 21-28 Feb. 4-11 —846*
NOTICE
North Carolina,
Duplin County.
In the General County Court
W. H. HINES, Plaintiff
vs.
CHERRY HINES, Defendant
The defendant above named
will take notice that an action
entitled as above has been
commenced in the General
County Court of Duplin Coun
ty, North Carolina, by the
plaintiff against the defendant
to secure an absolute divorce
on the grounds of two years
separation, and the said de^
fendant will further take no
tice that she is required to ap
pear before the Clerk of the
General County Court of Dup
lin County at his office in Ken- ^
ansville, North Carolina on the
15th DAY OF FEBRUARY,
1937, and answer or demur to
the complaint-which has been
filed in the office of said Clerk
of Duplin County, and the
said defendant Cherry Hines
will take notice, that if she
fails to answer or demur to the
said complaint within the time
above specified, the plaintiff
will apply to the Court for the'^
relief 'demanded in the com
plaint.
Given under my hand this
the 13th day of Jan. 1937.
R. V. WELLS,
Clerk of the general Coun- -
ty Court/
Jan. 21-28 Feb. 4-11 —847
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