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THE PERQUIMANS WEEKLY, HERTFORD, N. C, FRIDAY, OCTOBER 7, 1938 PAGE FIVE ISOLATED ISLANDS BECOME IMPORTANT Used at Steps in Another Trans-Pacific Airline. I i Washington. D. C As airlines . n t-. : zi .weave cut cut wcw vvc isolated islands become important land falls. Although the Samoan is lands, on the United States-New-Zealand route, long have been im portant among the Pacific posses sions of the United States, King man reef, like Wake island on the San Francisco-China route, was un inhabited and -of little use before it was chosen as a stop for the re cent, test flights of the ill-fated "Sa moa Clipper." "The new route," says the Nation al Geographic society, "brings the Antipodes two weeks closer to the United States. The schedule calls for a three-day jump from Honolulu to Auckland. "Kingman reef, 1,067 miles south west of Honolulu, is the first stop on the 4,400 mile outward flight from Hawaii. There, a four-masted schooner, Trade Wind, serves as a floating airport. The vessel is equipped with a radio station, weather bureau, and refueling facil ities. . Limited land on the tiny reef leads to the possibility of mooring a floating hotel in its coral lagoon. Some high ground, however, prom ises eventual improvements such as a station and storehouses. Pause at Pago Pago. "About 1,500 "miles south of King man reef, propellers will pause at Pago Pago bay, best and safest har bor in the Samoan archipelago. Pago Pago (pronounced Pango Pan go) is on rugged Tutuila, one of six volcanic islands which make up American Samoa, lying east of Brit ish Samoa's chain of eight. An im mense volcanic crater forms the harbor of Pago Pago. Important chiefly as a naval base, American Samoa is administered by the Na vy department; the commandant of Pago Pago's naval station functions as governor. Samoan treaty of 1878 granted to the United States the right to establish at Pago Pago a coaling and supply station for her naval and commercial vessels. "Samoans, purest of Polynesians, prove this relief station wisely cho sen. Gentle-voiced and easy-living, their very characters spell out re laxation. No echo of the high-powered motor's drone is the Polyne sian dialect, called the Italian of the Pacific. Since tradition names Sa vaii, British Samoa, as dispersion center of the Polynesian race over the Pacific ocean from Hawaii to New Zealand, it is not surprising to find an excellent type in Pago Pago. Light brown of color, of splen did physique, and of regular fea tures, they maintain mental and so cial standards that are high among Pacific peoples. They are simple, generous, honorable, hospitable folk, but brave fighters when neces sary. "It is natural in such a climate where wants are few that Samoans do not like to work. Their food is easily produced: breadfruit re quires no cultivation; bananas, taro, and yams demand little more than planting. Pigs and chickens are raised, but reserved for banquets and festive occasions. Fishing Is Not Work. "Although reluctant to toil in towns and country, Samoans will paddle canoes all day while sea fishing. The women, too, enjoy col lecting clams and catching shellfish. Often the men spend a whole day spearing fish along the reefs. "Equally enthusiastic are both men and women about song and dance. Robert Louis Stevenson de scribed their steps as vulgar and un attractive, but the dancing is never indecent before foreigners. "With no factories in American Samoa, the chief product and only export, copra, is prepared by the primitive but satisfactory method of spreading the coconut meat on mats in .the sun to dry. Women's hands weave these mats with sword like leaves from the pandanus plant. "From Samoa's solitude to New Zealand's gateway and greatest city in approximately 1,800 miles on the proposed air route. Auckland is the grand entrance to a veritable treasure house of natural phenome na spouting geysers, smoking mountains, and boiling springs of therapeutic value, Forest-clad hills, rich in timber trees and bush scen ery, fringe the city's boundaries. And Auckland is the natural outlet for one 6f the most productive coun tries in the world. Qn the trade route of the Panama canal, it is a busy seaport with an excellent har bor. ' hjr;. ,p, "In 1837 the site of Auckland' was hut a fern-clad millv. Two Years i I J 'ifttnii ; CantAitt Habsdn " arrived, i sind in ipw, ;aa governor, raised me British flag ovef the settlement oi Auckland. Here was New Zealand's seat of - government , until , Welling ton became capital in 1864. More s concerned with commerce, than pol itics, Auckland now engages in nu merous industries shipbuUdingi sii-gar-refhiing, fruit-canning, timber converting, and the manufacture of ; ammunition sashes and doors, rope, twine, pottery, brick, tile, var nish and boots.'' - ,,. Chewing The Rag With Lucius Blanchard, Jr. We hcird a man talking the other day who was mad as thunder and mumbling something about a one-arm driver who "crept along the hignway, curses at everything within his nar row range of vision. His mother would never recognize him as "Little Gilbert," who was always afraid of the sight of blood, and became speechless with terror in the presence of a mouse or garter snake. He isn't afraid of a thing in the world when he gets in high gear. Prospects of sudden death on the highway, gallons of blood, the motor in his lap, or a fender around his neck, phase him not one snap of the fingers. Maybe it's because automobiles make all men equal. At least until a passerby drags an unlucky victim from the twisted wreckage of what was an expensive car a minute ago. But Mr. Milktoast will live to be a hundred and keep right on road hogging, and whether he is ever con victed or not, some one will be for ever sorry that "Little Gilbert" ever learned to drive. weaving undecidedly across the black ' thunder and lightning, who fainted at line, and delayed me at least three minutes in getting to Hertford. 1 was afraid to pass him. I couldn't tell whether he knew" I was trying to pass or not." The truth is that no one seriously objects to one-arm driving so long as the driver is on a lonely country road at least five miles removed from the immediate vicinity of any other car or person. No one objects even if he has a bottle of pop in the other hand. One-arm drivers, seeking the lone ly spots, are a small menace, what we are getting at is this: there can real ly be no disregard for the rights and safety of others while no one else is endangered, but where there is a road and a car, very likely there is another car. So, leaving the one-arm drivers for a minute, while the road-hog endan gers only himself it's OK with all of us if he wraps his car around a tree so that it can never be untied. In fact, it might be a good thing. An innocent party, however, is usually! the goat and gets the butt end of a smashup. We would dearly love to see a dozen dyed-in-the-wool, incontrovert ible road-hoggers given the freedom of a dangerous 15-foot wide stretch of road with not a sane driver in sight. If their ways did not change imme diately, we believe the show would be a spectacle to behold . . . we'd buy ringside tickets anytime. For some deep-seated reason, prob ably originating back in the Stone Age when Alley Oops rode dinosaurs, the mildest Mr. Milktoast becomes i demon on wheels when he settles down behind a hundred horsepower motor. He honks and fumes and MISSIONARY SOCIETY MEETS Mrs. H. E. Ownley entertained the Woman's Missionary Society of Oak Grove Church at her home near Chapanoke on Tuesday evening, Sept. 27th. The meting was opened with MISS COrELAND HONORED the hymn, "I Need Thee Every Hour," her new home. Mr. and Mrs. T. W. Nixon enter tained at a delightful shower on Thursday evening in honor of Miss Ellen Copeland, who will soon occupy and Mrs. C. P. Quincy led in prayer. Mrs. Otis Lane read the Scripture. Others taking part on the program were Misses Al Whitehead and Doris Lewis and Mrs. W. W. Lewis. Mrs. Quincy led a "Spiritual Life" pro gram. The hymn, "A Charge To Keep," was sung and the meeting was dismissed into the social hour with prayer by Mrs. W. H. Overman. Cake and ice cream were served by the hostess. Members and visitors present in cluded Mesdames Addie Bright, Elihu Lane, George Jackson, W. W. Lewis, W. T. Lewis, W. H. Overman, H. E. Ownley, Daisy Perry, C. P. Quincy, Gerald Wood, Marvin Bobbins, Otis Lane, Misses Annie Mae Beasley, Hazel Bright, Gracie and Mattie Fer rell, Doris Lane, and Al Whitehead. numerous An Old U. S. Costum We never kick about throwing mon ey in the river when it's Uncle Sam's money and our river. Bruswick Pilot. Miss Copeland received useful gifts. The guests were served ice cream, cakes and mints. Those present and sending gifts were: Mr. and Mrs. T. W. Nixon, Mr. and Mrs. Sidney Layden, Mr. and Mrs. Clarence Dail, Mr. and Mrs. Tom Goodwin, Mr. and Mrs. Jones Perry, Mr. and Mrs. John Lane, Mr. and Mrs. E. C. Parrish, Mr. and Mrs. C. W. Reed, Mr. and Mrs. B. F. Ainsley, Mr. and Mrs. T. S. Nixon, Mr. and,Mrs. Carson Howell, Mr. and Mrs. Wayland Howell, Will Howell, Mrs. Addie Jones, Mrs. Betty Jones, Mr. and Mrs. Jack Hunter, Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Rogerson, Mrs. Eddie Boyce, Misses Lillian Ray Perry, Stella Rogerson, Bonnie Lee Leary, Alma and Sybil Howell, Eleanor Hunter, Elizabeth, Miriar and Minnie j T Louise Nixon, Kathryn Goodwin and I E Mxon, Mr. and Mrs. Will Copeland, Mr. and Mrs. Crowder Perry and son, Elton, of Harrellsville, Mr. and Mrs. Jack Anderson, Mr. and Mrs. El wood Carey, of Media, Pa., Mrs. Mer rill Forehand, of Sunbury, and Mrs. Curtis Wilson, of Colerain. HOSTESS TO CIRCLE NO., 3 Mrs. V. N. Darden was hostess to Circle No. Three of the Woman's Missionary Society of the Hertford Baptist Church on Monday evening at her home on Front Street. After the business session, the devotional was conducted by Mrs. C. R. Holmes. Mrs. J. E. White presented three in spiring chapters on "Prevailing Pray er." The meeting was dismissed with a prayer by Mrs. J. W. Ward. A delicious sweet course was serv ed by the hostess to thefoTlUHSfe members: Mrs. J. E. White, Mrs. Trim Wilson, Mrs. B. C. Berry, Mrs. Wallace Umphlett, Mrs. C. R. Holmes, Mrs. L. N. Hollowell, Mrs. G. R. Tucker, Mrs. J. W. Ward, Mrs. H. T. ! Brouhton, Mrs. C. A. Cannon, Mrs. U. Jeseup, Mrs. J. (J. buck, Mrs. L. Laughinghouse, Mrs. J. W. Eleanor Jones, and Preston Nixon,' Zachary, Miss Helen Morgan, and a Russell Nixon, Albert Jones, Sidney I visitor, Miss Alma Leggett. Layden, Jr., Durward Jones, Bob The Circle will meet on November Layden, Thomas Jones, and Tommy 7 at the home of Mrs. C. A. Cannon. - 150-Ton Signpost Erected London. -More than 150 , tons cf 'concrete have been used to make Great Britain's largest signpost the aerial signpost just completed in the meadows at King' Langley, CENTER HILL Mrs. Emmett Parker, of Sunbury, spent a few days last week with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. J. N. Boyce. Miss Lucy Myers White went tc Durham for the week-end. Mr. and Mrs. Henry Goodwin, of Greenhall, visited Mr. and Mrs. R. O. Furry Sunday afternoon. Mr. and Mrs. Herbert Ellis, Miss Thelma Ellis and Mrs. Jim Baker, of Norfolk, Va., spent the week-end with Mrs. Ida Ellis. Mrs. J. S. Turner and daughter, Peggy, Mrs. Willie Lamb and son, Stacey, visited Mrs. Nearest Jordan Saturday evening. Mrs. T. H. Byrum and son, Robert, Mr. and Mrs. Eugene Jernigan and daughter, Sylvia, Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Jernigan and children spent Sunday afternoon at Colerain with friends. Mr. and Mrs. Rufus Smithson and son, of Edenton, visited Mrs. Smith son's parents, Mr. and Mrs. H. E, Lane, Sunday. Mr. and Mrs. J. S. Turner and two children, Robert and Peggy, visited Mr. and Mrs. Willie Byrum Sunday evening. Mr. and Mrs. Roland Winslow and daughter, Ruth, of Elizabeth City, dined with Mr. and Mrs. L. W. Belch Sunday. William Belch and Murray Good win, students at Wake Forest College, were at their respective homes for the week-end. Mr. and Mrs. Emmett Jones, of Norfolk, Va., spent Sunday with Mrs. Ida Reed. Mrs. Raymond Ward visited Mrs. Clayton Ward Saturday evening. Mrs. Eugene Jernigan and daugh ter, Sylvia, spent Monday night with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. T. H. By rum. Mr. and Mrs. Richard Copeland and son, Carrol, of Edenton, visited Mrs. Copeland's parents, Mr. and Mrs. J. P. Byrum, Sunday. Ervili Jordan, of Norfolk, Va., spent a few days last week here with his wife and sons. Mrs. Oliver Jordan visited Mrs. Silas Goodwin Saturday evening. Mrs. Goodwin remains very ill. I JLVJU, lJKJi Win X1AVL A - - II ' l Y tJIM' And Save I i "i'sura ;v ii iXpnn V THRIFTIES jjPi MONEY '".Hrt.ChUtmm J J sh Return On Every Doihir You Spend At LANCHARD'S Thrifties Are Given On All Cash Purchases and Charge Accounts Paid In Full on or Before the 10th of the Month Fol lowing Purchases. JJdDnun Christmas Clu Join the THRIFTY brigade by calling at our office and ask for a pass book. Start saving THRIFTIES and get a 2 CASH RETURN on every dollar you spend. With every 25c purchase you re ceive one THRIFTY; with every 50c pur chase, two THRIFTIES, and so on. There are no strings, no red tape, no "if s," "ands" or "buts"; THRIFTIES are a plain out and out saving proposition for every one who saves them. You Save as You Spend! It's just like DIVIDENDS You Save As You Spend! from your investments but THRIFTIES are DIVIDENDS from what you spend accumulated for you, through the year, and paid in cash in one lump sum just be fore Christmas. Between Nov. 15 and Dec. 10 mail your Thrifties Pass Rook with all pages and cover attached to Christmas Club, A Corporation, Madison Ave., New York City and get your check. Ask for Thrifties. Enjoy paid for Christmas. JJ. (C. Mamdtms (Co., nunc. 106 YEARS OF SERVICE "BLANCHARD'S" SINCE 1832 QUALITY MERCHANDISE RIGHT PRICES HERTFORD, NORTH CAROLINA I --L I n - - .;; Theatre Hertford, N. C. 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