TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 15, 1949
CARTERET COUNTY NEWS-TIMES, MORE HEAD CITY AND BEAUFORT, N. C.
PAGE THREE
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Southerner Speak
Black and White on the Farm
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TWO WAYS OF FARMING The man and his mule has long
beea typical of wuthern farmlaf. Recently, however, as labor
moved to tbe cities, the tractor has been takiag ver.
(Second of Six Articles)
By BEM PRICE
AP Newsfeatures
ROBERTA, G. Jasper Har-
against Negroes voting and a
good many white folks for that
matter. I figure a man ought to
pay taxes before he can vote;
buck and Allen Lyons live in Craw- gives him a stake in government,
ford County. Both have worked al- But you take the average rnn of
most unbelievably hard. Harbuck country Negroes. Why he'd sell
is white, Lyons a Negro. his vote for less'n $5. So would
Harbuck has 200 acres of gobd some white people I know."
land which he inherited from his j Tnr. one word which separates
father, 100 hogs, 20 head of cat-l the worids 0f Harbuck and Lyons,
tie, a dozen chickens, two cats and I both 0f which are fictional names,
a tractor. is "education." Harbuck had two
Lyons has 340 acres, one hog. one years 0f college at an agricultural
mule, two cows, six chickens and ; institute.
two cats. He began working as a About eight years ago the trend
tenant farmer 45 years ago. toward mechanization kit the
Though they have lived in the county. Wartime construction jobs
county all their lives, and the drew Negroes out of the area by
area embraces only 200,000 acres the hundreds,
containing 7,128 people, neither j They mere getting $5 to $6
has to Lis knowledge seen the a day sajd Harbuck, "and I
other. couldn't compete with wages
Nrwi from
CEDAR ISUMDV'
Mr.
New
tend.
- The Women's Home Demonstra
ion d .1; wiil meet Tuesday night,
.'toru. ry 22. st seven-thirty. The
demonstration will be "Take "lime
to be A Good Citizen." Each mem
jer is uryed to attend. .
Mrs. Chester Dunkle and little
on rft 'rned home from the hos-
and Mrs. Alton Lupton ok pital last Thursday,
em spent the week end! Mr. md Mrs. Harry Gillikin and
Feb. 15 Mr. Wes Tosto of
Oriental, N. C, spent Sunday here
vith her mother, Mrs. Nina Lup
on. Mr. Warren F. Lupton, who is
working at Oriental, spent Sunday
Mr. Hugli G. Tosto and girl
,'riend, of Oriental, were visitor
lere Sunday.
like that. I had about 1 Negro
families on the place and I
wasn't making any rauney on
them anyhow. So I got myself
a tractor.
"I'd bien raising row crops
cotton, corn, peanuts. Some
But brflh, in terms of white
man and Negro, are aware of
the other's presence. -Harbuck
is uncoe fortable about the so
called Negro problem and
would lef ve it if he could.
Lyons just goes his humble.
hat-tippin": way with the remark. peaches
"When 1 .ee a white man coming! "I wasn't making a dune. So
down de :o:.d I knows is gonna when 1 got the tractor and there
eive me trouble, ef'n he'll jus', wasn't work for those left, they
gimme ti e, I'll git to one side gradually drifted off. I was glad
and he kt n Inve all de road." to see 'em go. There was one
When Harbuck was asked about Negro, though, been on the place
the Negro problem, he replied, about 30 years that stayed. We
"I've got a sister over on a moun- retired him on a little pension
tain in Alabama. They've never about two years ago.
had Negroes there. Theye never; "Anyhow," he related, "I went
learned to have Negroes wait on jn for hogs and cattle. 1 can sow
'em, bring em in the field. Wo, sir, all this land in oats myself for the
they do everything for themselves cattle. Haven't tried to make
over there and if I was a younger anything off them yet. I'm living
man that's where Id go. I off hogs mostly. Paid off all my
What about the treatment of mortgage but $400.
Negroes? "Of owirse, I'm tiH buying
"We get blamed for a lot of things. When they put in elec
trouble down here which ain't tricky down this way (REA) I got
our fatiU," says Harbuck. "If a
Negro had any sense we might
get along, but they'll tear up
your machinery, and if you ain't
there t watch 'em, they won't
work."
Lyons just observes, "I gits
along tel able well with white
folks. Ain' never had no trouble."
Maybe education is the answer
to the problem of the "machinery-
Wrecking, lazy Negro?"
Well, mavbe so, I don t know,
answered Harbuck, "but in a
county as poor as this one how
you gonna build enough schools?
Theres 4.000 Negroes in the
County and 3,000 whites and lots
of these Negroes have 15 children
piece."
Said Lyons, "I never went to
BOhool more'n eight-days hand-
unnin' in my lite, mow, riatiie
(hi wife), how far'd these chillun
get?"
Hattie, who gave birth to nine
children, two of them while work
ing in the fields, replied, "the
oldest thrt's 'John got to the
ninth grade. That's all the school.
Them others was somewhere
twixt."
The county has a fine con
solidated school for white chil
dren. The Negro school for
Hattie's children i a two-room,
.frame building. Neither room is
over 18 feet square, but there
arc white-ruffed curtains at the
( windows.
How about voting?
"I ain't never voted in my life,"
said Lyons. Hattie said: "That's
for white folks."
'an ice box, a refrigerator, an iron
er, a deep freeze and some other
I stuff. That slowed up paying off
the mortgage."
Feb. 13 Mrs. Bessie Jackson,
of Jacksonville, Fla., who has been
visiting her niece, Mrs. Hilda Gil
likin, visited Mrs. Herbert Han
cock, Mrs. V. A. Chadwick and Mrs.
Hugh Willis here Friday morning.
Mrs. Robert Matthews and
daughter, Peggy, of Rocky Mount,
accompanied Mrs. W. D. Pake
home Saturday night. All returned
back to Rocky Mount Sunday.
Mjr. and Mrs. Guion Simpson
made a business visit to Washing
ton, D. C. last week.
Captain and Mrs. H. C. Willis
and daughter, Elsie, Mr. and Mrs.
V. A. Chadwick, Mr. George Han
cock, Mrs. William Tyler, Mr. and
Mrs. L. F. Taylor, Mr. and Mrs.
Floyd Chadwick, Mr. George W.
Davis, Mr. and Mrs. Clifton Yeo
mans, Mrs. Hilda Gillikin ar.d
daughter, Mrs. Leon Lewis, all of
Smyrna, attended the clam bake
at Williston Saturday night.
Mrs. Prudie Willis, of Atlantic,
was here a short time Saturday
afternoon.
Mr. and Mrs. Vivian Chadwick,
Mrs. H. R. Chadwick, Sr. and Mrs.
Said Harbuck: "Right now I'm H. R. Chadwick, Jr. enjoyed a plea
sant drive to Harfcers Island Sim
lay afternoon.
Mr. a dnMrs E. H. Heady and
Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Hood were
,n Gloucester Sunday afternoim.
Mr. E. T. Piner, of Marshallberg,
isited his mother here Sunday.
Some of the Chadwicks from
Smyrna visited Mrs. C. S. Willis
A Marshallberg Friday night.
Mrs. Jettie Willis and grand
daughter, Terry spent Sunday af
tcrnoo.i with Mrs. Lionel Taylor.
Mr. and Mrs. W. L. Smith visited
Mr. and Mrs. Vance Fuli.jrc'. and
family in Heaulort SuncUy after
noon.
Mis. Eloise Adams of Morehead
ity spent Wednesday here with
her parents.
Mrs. Leon Lewis, who has been
living in Murchead City since Nov
ember, has moved back to Smyrna
or an indefinite time to be with
ler mother. Mr. Lewis has been
transferred to Charleston. S. C.
Chief Journalist Norman Gilli
kin, of Arlington, Va . alter spend
ing several davs here, returned to
his home Satrday.
here with relatives.
j Mr. and Mrs. Earl Day took Mr
E. G. Daniels to Beaufort hst
(Thursday to Dr. Salter, he had a
jttrbuncle on his neck. He is muc
1 'm;ivo ed now.
'r. and Mrs. Wilbur Goodwin
. .d daughter. Zelma were th(
ue-ti ef Mrs. Gl dys Lupton Sun
, !ay.
I x nr.d Mr. S R. Gcodwin !ef
I i;t Friday for their home in TV
1 -ian;a. Pa. after spending a weel'
ce with his parents, Mr. and
'Irs. J. W. Goodwin.
Mpssrs F.arl Bsv and Woodrow
Daniels attended the clam bake .Mrs ,A 51 Tallman. Mi Ber
o wiiiictn i.ct Srtmv nioht nice Tallman and Mrs. G. R. Hus
Mr. Earl Styron returned lo Bo
:ue Inlet C. G. station last Friday
fter spending his leave here with
iis parents, Mr. and Mrs. John
!tyron.
Mrs. Janet Daniels and daugh
ter. Carolyn spent Sunday with
Mr. and Mrs. E. G. Daniels.
Mr. and Mrs. Lloyd Goodwin and
?hildren spent Sunday afternoon
vith his parents, Mr. and Mrs, J.
W. Goodwin.
Mrs. Jane Ann Downing is still
'onfined to her bed and is pretty
sick at this writing.
Mr. Ervin Lupton is visiting his
;on, Clifton Lupton and wife at
Newport a while.
Miss Jean Sprinkle attended a
'.lam bake at Williston Saturday
night.
Mr. sncl Mrs: Robert Russell at
'ended a da;:ce Friday night at the
Yacht basin.
Mr. John Chaplain, of Beaufort
spent a while here Sunday morn
ing with Mr. Km Chaplain.
Mrs. W. W. Russell is spending
a few days with her sister, Mrs
Clyde Mathais of Currituck.
Mrs. L I) Springle and daugh
ter, Miss iVsy Springle visited Mr
nd Mrs. J. B. Morton Sunday af
ernoon.
sell attended the Methodist confer
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Point conducted by the Rev. B. B.
Slaughter, Dist. Supt.
Mrs. R. L. Gray visited Mr. and
Mrs. Bryan Worthington Sunday
afternoon.
Mrs. Violet Whitley ,of Newport,
;r.e,it C.e week end here with re
latives. Mr. and Mrs. J. L. Morton and
ittle Mar li.i Morton spent Sun
day with Mr. -nd Mrs. J. D. Mor-
l
ton.
ivii'. G. R. . Russell and son,
George Miller visited Mr. and Mrs.
jol Willis of North River Sunday
afternoon.
:,!?. Leon Fodrie visited Mrs.
.'l;Krr Dunkle last Friday night.
?r. and Mrs. John French and
family of Bridgeton visited rela
tives in the community Sunday.
Master Koobie nussell spent the
week end in Morehead City.
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