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.1 V . , l HE PERQUIMANS WEEKLY HERTFt-SD. N. C. FRIDAY NOVEMBER 2G, 1937- . , AGE POUR THE PERQUIMANS ,v - WEEKLY - , ' Published every friday at Th , raquiiutum , weeajy ... vuiko u wit Gregory Building, Church Street, Hertford, N. C. - - : , MATTIE LISTER WHITE, Editor Day Phone . : 8 Night Phone 100-J 'subscription RATES On Tear:"L , X25 Six Months. .76 Wintered -as.. i second, class matter NnwmWifK d!)! aft, the nost ofik 1 at Hertford. North Carolina, under the Act of March 8, 1879. Advertising rates furnished by re quest FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 26, f937 THIS WEEK'S BIBLE THOUGHT MAKE RICHES SERVANT NOT RULER: Then said Jesus unto his disciples, Verily I say unto you, That a rich man shall hardly enter into the kingdom of heaven. And again I say unto you, It is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle than for a rich man to enter into the kingdom of God. Matthew 19:23, 24. NOT ALWAYS IS THE MOST FOR TUNATE THE MOST THANKFUL A certain woman who appears to have had more than her share of misfortune was heard to say, the other day, that it made her realize her own blessings when she went into the home of an unfortunate family where there had recently come bereavement and saw how bare the place was of comforts and how evident was the family's need. "I know we have had a lot of hard luck," she said and she had "but I went home feeling that I hadn't been half grateful enough fo'r the blessings which I have had." The woman went on to enumerate her own blessings, mentioning first the good health with which each member of her family had been blessed ,and pointing out other fortunate circum stances of her lot. Another woman, the same day, be wailing the fact that plans she had made for a trip were not going to materialize, complained bitterly of her lot and had much to say about what she termed her hard luck. Now, it happens that the second woman referred to has been the re cipient of many material blessings, including health and a measure of wealth. It would seem that the little matter of one disappointment should not loom so dark on an otherwise fairly cloudless horizon. It is not, after all, what one has which makes him lift a thankful heart to the Giver of all good gifts. Surely, "The Kingdom of Heaven lies within you." MAY BE THE ANSWER There can be little doubt that in such cases as those in which the probation -system was put into prac tice in Perquimans this week the procedure is good. Certainly it is better to put on .probation, under the supervision of a proper officer as is provided by the measure, a young man whose char acter has been good for twenty-odd years and who makes one mis-step, than to send that young, man' to prison. " For the hardened criminal, the re peater, the probation system will not work. It is not intended for that type of law-breaker. It is to prevent the youth who has made a slip from becoming a criminal, that the proba tion system has been inaugurated. After all, there is wide difference in the man who has made one mis take and the man who deliberately ;or per8i8tenly violates the- law, and .thoughtful persons have felt for a long time that there should be a difference in the type of punishment. ine probation system, properly ad' ministered, may be the answer to the problem. WORTHY OF PRAISE Not fighting toward a state cham pionship as were Edenton's Aces, but more" courageous and worthier of praise are Coach Bob Bates' Indians. Playing asralnst much heavier odds: borne town indifference, four or five years of successive defeats and gen eral pessisism, a few lads, with ; plenty of what it takes, this fall i managed to drag Perquimans athle tics out of the, accepted losing class jand even presented formidable Oppo sition, to' the. stronr Windsor S flonad 8:Jast; Friday. Windsor wanbut threei twin out of five starts not a had standing for a team slated at the out I set to lose every game. i .The Perquimans Weekly tenders a rousing war whoop to Dean Bates ,' J : ' iim uis warriors. ENTERTAIN AT DINNER ? , Mr. and Mrs. Jesse Harrell and f Miss Emma Harrell entertained a "few of their friends Sunday at a de li lightful dinner : at their home at j Snow . Hill, the occasion . being the birthday of James - Wesley Harrell, ''-son of Mr and Mrs.4 Jesse Harrell. Those enjoying the affair were: Mr, and Mrs. Moody, Harrell, Mr. and Mrs. Ralph HarrelL Mrs. J.H. Har- ; rell, ' Mr. and 1 Mrs. Jesse ' Harrell, ?isses Stella Mae Benton, Elinor Jordan, Eunice Harrell, Carolyn Dean Harrell, Vernon Harrell and James UTILIZE SUBWAYS TO SPEED TRAFFIC Type of Rap'd Transit Used in Most Countries.' ' Washington, D. C "Discussions of a subway for the District of Columbia are reminders that this is the only major national capital of the world today without this type of rapid transit," says the National Geographic society. ' 'England, .France, Germany," Ja pan, Argentina and soviet Kussia U4.worldw8vhave.:iinder- J ground railways. Italy, joining , the countries with underground ... trans portation this year; broke ground in February to plant four miles of sub way at the roots of ancient Rome itself. 'V'v-vlv-v-f "Even ' countries Which do - not have marked traffic congestion have provided their capitals with sub ways Hungary, Spain, Scotland, and Greece. Chile has approved sub way plans for Santiago, and Czecho slovakia has started on fifteen un derground miles for Prague. "London's 'tubes,' Paris' 'Metro,' Berlin's white 'IT on a blue ground, the broad flaming 'M' over Moscow's subway entrances, crowds funneling into the sidewalk hoods of New York's subways all are the talk of tourists and the speedy escape from tangles of surface traffic. Many Subway Systems. "About seventeen cities in the world have subway systems, with underground tracks, stations, and appropriate cars or trains. Four others have underground sections in their street railways, where sur face cars go undercover for several stations, then emerge farther on. "A great many more street rail way systems employ underground passages where track and train dip below the surface to avoid a hill or a congested area, as in Pittsburgh and in Los Angeles, and at the Kobe end of the line between Japan's metropolis of Osaka and its port Kobe. Chicago has a subway for freight but none for passengers. "So far, the closest approximation to a subway in Washington is a mid get underground railway which has no schedule, no tickets, and only the most distinguished patrons. It shut tles back and forth beneath the Capitol and the senate office build ing, carrying senators from office to oratory without exposure to traf fic or weather hazards. "In Liverpool, Newark, Roches ter, and Athens the street railways lead a Dr. Jekyll-Mr. Hyde exist ence, going underground for only part of their career. "London blazed the subway trail, with an underground steam railway in the 1860's. Glasgow, Scotland, followed suit in 1896. "Berlin, another pioneer, now has over 40 miles of subway. Instead of separate cars for different classes of passengers, as in part of Lon don's underground system, it makes a distinction only between smokers and non-smokers, with red cars for the former and yellow coaches for the latter. Some of its subway sta tions, such as the Alexander-Platz, with its pictures in tile of old Ber lin, are three stories high, and serve the elevated railway as well. "Paris has an even larger system, spreading an ' underground spider web beneath the city's foundation, with 29ff -stations. In contrast to New York's simple coin-in-the-slot entrances, the subways of Paris re quire tickets for first and second class travel. - "The subway has even reached Asia, for Japan now uses this rapid transit solution for two of her rapid ly growing cities, Tokyo and Osaka. Moscow a Newcomer. : "A newcomer'to the subway cir cuit is Moscow, With thirteen sta tions on three routes radiating from the Okhotny Ryad station in the center of the new business and hotel section. In their spare time volun teer workers joined in the labor of tunneling through marshy earth and quicksands. The marble stations are free of advertising, and mechanical ventilation and unusually lofty ceil ings 15 to 20 feet high instead of the more usual 10 give an impres sion of airiness. "Subways are an old story in the New World, for Boston has-had one since the beginning of this century. Philadelphia's narrow streets made that city also dig deep for a solution to its traffic problem'. The subway city par excellence, of course, is New York, where miles of sub-surface track- are counted not by fives and tens but by the hundreds, and a nickel buys mors underground travel than anywhere, else in the world. In some vspots,j routes were blasted through solid rock without disturbing taU buildings on the sur face. "Farthest south subway is that of Buenos Aires. Three systems con nect the central business district with the outlying suburbs of Bel grano, Palermo and Saavedra. The tunnel of one is large. enough for regular railroad trains.", 4 , - 11 Bans Tipsy Flying - f Selma, Ala.--Selma's city council approved ah ordinance .prohibiting . "persons under the . influence of liquor or narcotics from operating an airplane1 over this municipality." , .Old Coffee. Mill " I' v Melbourne, Ark. A 110-year-old coffee mill and a 100-year-old wal nut chest are still in use at the ;-. horn of Joseph Jones here. - ' ' " ' ' THE FUN Stand facing your subject, who may be sitting or standing, about two feet away. His feet are together. You have a coin or other small solid object held loosely between your thumb and forefinger, approximate ly 30 inches above the floor (most tables and desks are 30 inches high). Your subject watches this coin. When, without warning, you drop it, he moves his right foot to intercept the coin so that it will strike hi3 foot instead of the floor. Try several times. It takes the coin of a second to reach the floor. From a height of 48 inches, it will take of a second. From a height of 70 inches, it will take ys of a second. Reaction time of of a second is very good; second is fair; y5 of a second is slow. (Traveler Srjrtv S'rvicm) WINFALLNEWS Mr. and Mrs. Ernest Jennings, Mr and Mrs. Billie Sawyer,. Miss Mar jorie Wilcox and Joe Sawyer, of Eli zabeth City; Mr. and. Mrs. Josiah Elliott, of Hertford; Mr. and Mrs. B. H. Ward and family visited Mr. and Mrs. Joe Overman Sunday. Mr. and Mrs. S. J. Hill and son, Sam White, of -Norfolk, Va., spent Sunday with Misses Annie and Eliza White. Mr. and Mrs. Ernest Jennings, Miss Gladys Ward - and Ellis Jones motored to Norfolk, Va., Sunday. Mrs. J. H. Barber, ;; Miss Frankie Barber and Miss Mamie, Stallings went to Edenton Monday afternoon on business. ( . ,v , Mrs. Jesse Stanton' and Miss Lu cille White recently visited friendi in Windsor.' .' Mrs. D. P. Stallings and Mrs. Will Hall spent Monday, afternoon in Eli zabeth City with Mrs. Earl' Jackson. Mr. and Mrs. T. C. Perry and Mrs. R. M. Duncan, of Belvidere; Mr. and Mrs. Norm Owens and Hilda Perry, of Elizabeth City, were guests oi Mrs. J. H. Barber Sunday. Mr. and Mrs. A. R. Wihslow, Jr., MCEIIft'lDQDF:. ' & ' - ' ' ' 1 1 ROASTED IN! IE .In. I And Ready to Be Carv ? r x X 1 . SETS CARVING ?;s, i f ; Stoves! ti Coo!iihg: Utensils ; ,i - j . V.WE HAVE EVERYTHING BUT THE TURKEY " : f i IV'J ' AND THE 'APPETITE j' X ! Ikrtfcrd Iktee & Supy Ckny 1 " ; "Trade Here and V ;.'-HE2TrORDf N.C' - THE FACTS " . K.- You can readily perceive the stm . ilarity in movement between Inter cepting the coin 'and moving e $MflrsSrJ foot from the accelerator . to - the brake in an emergency. At 40 miles per hour, you travel 60 feet in 1 sec ond. If your reaction time is sec ond, your car will have traveled 30 feet between the time you recognise a dangerous situation and the time you get your foot on the brake. This has nothing to do with stopping the car; the brake action has yet to take place. Four-wheel brakes in good condition may stop your car In an additional 80 feet. Total distance, 110 feet. At 50 M.P.H., reaction time would consume 38 feet, braking 125; total 163 feet. At 60 M.P.H., reaction time would consume 45 feet, braking 180; total 225 feet. Note that twice the distance Is necessary to stop at 60 M. P. H. as at 40 M.P.H. Now you can see why It pays to be careful at intersections and in congested areas. attended the Duke-Carolina game in Durham Saturday. Hiss Dona White, Alphonso White and Johnnie Simpson motored to Lake Mattamuskeet Sunday afternoon. Mis. J. V. Roache and Miss Myrtle Umphlett went to Norfolk, Va., Tuesday. Mrs. A. R. Winslow, Sr.j is visiting her daughter, Mrs. W. D. Bynam, at Oxford. Miss Lorna Brothers, of Speed, was the week-end guest of Miss Alma Leggett. Mrs. C. M. Chalk, Mrs. Clyde White and Howard Copeland went to Norfolk, Va., Tuesday, ' ,r Fred Winslow and son, Fred, Jr., have ecovered from '.recent illnesses. CHAPANOKE NEWS Mr. and Mrs. Davis Trueblood have returned to their home In Norfolk, Va., after spending several days as guests of Mrs. MolUe Trueblood. . ', Miss Cora Layden, former teacher here, spent Tuesday night with Mrs; Daisy Perry1. . . Mrs. Roy Branch and small son have returned to their, home in Nor Brown and Tasty! ONE OF OUR . ENAMEL ii ed With One of Our if tt, i T j - ' C" f ' , - , v " r ! . l ' , 4 Bank the Difference" . 1, It's Apple V . J ' nii'Ti 1 1 ii J mi in i ii "r "lr'in tifi V-Jl ' PICKING this year's apple crop is proving to be a huge Job In the Appalachian region. These Virginia beauties were coaxed into climb ing a heavily loaded tree in an orchard owned by United States Senator Harry F. Byrd. They are, top to bottom, Miss Jeanne Miller, Miss Shir ley-Carter Williams, Miss Kdna Courtney (with basket) and Miss Dana, Virginia Nelson. - ; folk, Va., after a pleasant visit with her mother, Mrs. P. L. Griffin. . Mr. and Mrs. G. W. Alexander and children and Susie Mae Wilson were visiting friends at New Hope Sunday afternoon. J. C. Wilson was in Hertford on business Tuesday morning. Mrs. Maryland Boyce spent Mon day with her mother, Mrs. Jesse Hurdle. Mrs. W. R. Perry ;and Miss Hazel Bright were in Elizabeth City re cently. Mr. and Mrs. John Asbell dined with Mr: and Mrs. George Asbell on Sunday. 'v Mrs. Kate. Jackson is spending a few days. with her daughter, .Mrs. Claude Perry, .i,' Mrs: : D'Orsev. , Mrs.,, Daisv. Perrv. Mrs.vXaaudeFeiWs'ana Mrs.,W. H. it NB7 KID Sill They are really beau tiful Dresses' some thing to dress up . in during the holiday season. Lovely Patterns SEE OUR NEW '1 ' l I! H Ar; Ju . SIZES: . " ' ..HV20 . i, ' ' 38 to 50 $4.9. ' ; PI :r.iy cf Coats For Your Selection! ''store of valu::" - HERTFCrP, 13. c. , ; PickM, Time f v ( I, rf'f- V) Elliott motored to Water Lily and Jarvisburg Sunday. Mrs. Eva Byrum is visiting rela tives in Portsmouth, Va., for a few days. Mr. and Mrs. C. P. Quincy were at Winfall Monday night. G. A. White, Mrs. Robert Wood, of Elizabeth City, Mr. and Mrs. Arthur White, of Hertford, were guests of Mr. and Mrs. J. C. White Sunday. Although a hurricane may be blow ing 200 miles an hour, there is a calm area in the center, usually about ten miles across. FOUND TRUCK LICENSE PLATE on Perquimans River Bridge. uwner can secure sal-Stv.appiy . 4 ing at Clerk of Court "S'h- . . Hertford. -. - WINTER J" 't ii' V y 71 f I..;. :i'J: rarre'.l.
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