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0 It) PAGE TWO ' Vft THE PERQUIMANS WEEKLY. HERTFORD, N. C ' FRIDAY. (NOVEMBER 25," 1938 THE) PERQUIMANS WEEKLY ; f ' Published every Friday at The Perquimans Weekly office in The Hertford Hardware Building on the North Side, Court- House Square, Hertford, N. C. - i ; . Lucius Blanchard, Jr. -Editor ; Day Phone ; 88 SUBSCRIPTION RATES One Year . Six llonths . 41-25 75c Entered as second class matter November 15, 1934, at the post office at Hertford, North Caro lina, under the Act of March 3, i879. Advertising rates furnished by request. THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 25, 1938 BIBLE THOUGHT FOR WEEK HOPE IS A FORM OF COURAGE: For we are saved by hope: but hope that is seen is not hope: for what a man seeth, why doth he yet hope for? But if we hope for that we see not, then do we with patience wait for it. Romans 8:24-25. ANOTHER WAY TO LOOK AT IT! "Thirty-nine children under ten years of age spent a total of 213 days in 15 county jails during the first nine months of 1938," W. C. Ezell, director of the division of in stitutions and corrections of the State Board of Charities and Public Wel fare, announced this week. "Lack of community interest and lack of cooperation between the courts, law enforcing agencies and welfare authorities is. doubtless the chief factor in this practice of putting children behind the bars pf a county jail," he continued. While none of the children men tioned by the director was held for even an hour in the Perquimans County jail, and we are happily left entirely out of the report, The Week ly still learned with astonishment that "one nine-year-old boy was held for driving drunk, and a seven-year-old child was jailed for box-car break ing, and an eight-year-old was held for larceny of an auto." Anyone of these crimes is worthy of a much older person, which fact leaves The Weekly wondering more why the crime was committed than whether or not the child was punish ed in jailhouse confinement. North Carolina grants dependent children only 19 cents a day and the average cost of keeping a person in jail is 56 cents a day in this state, and says Mr. Ezell, "That North Car olina is willing to continue the prac tice of making grants of only 19 cents a day to dependent children, and at the same time be willing to pay 56 cents a day to keep them in jail, or 93 cents a day to keep them in a training school, is a reflection on our whole social philosophy." While we agree with the director in part and sympathize with him whol ly, we still believe he is attacking the problem from the wrong angle. The fact that the average stay in jail of each child was three or four days, shows that the courts and law enforcing agencies, at least, were not anxious to keep the children there. We believe Mr. Ezell should attack through his welfare offices throughout the state, putting the burden on them to keep track of the dependent chil dren. Even then, "driving drunk" does not sound like a dependent child crime. The courts and enforcement officers are up a tree in dealing with toddling criminals, and "assault," "breaking and entering," "larceny of autos" and "box-car breaking," are not offenses that can be easily over looked. For the sake of fond parents who may view with alarm the jailing of 39 children under ten years of age, 32 of them were Negro boys. And less than one white child in trouble each month in the whole state is a pretty good standing, we think. FOR THESE WE ARE TRULY THANKFUL In this age of speed and enlighten ment, affairs of international import ance become local gossip. Radio, wireless and instantaneous news ser ice bring into our homes incidents that take place in China or Africa onlv a few minutes before we hear about them. These man-made miracles of com munication tie us all closely together, so closely that today we find our selves regarding as our own the problems of the Jews in Germany and the wretched Chinese overwhelm ed by the might of Japan, while a score of years ago these happenings seemed so far removed from our lives that they scarcely figured in our daily scheme of worrying. These problems now are undoubt edly partly ours,; radio and newspa pers have made them to, whether we .V ..... . t . are in any way responswie or not. But putting aside for a moment the ' persecution of the Jews', the mas- sacra of the Chinese; end ' the atti tudes of Hungary and othef European . nations, we come to the reason xor the heading of this itemr "For inese ' We Are Truly Thankful. " , Consider fpr a spell our own United Ktafaii alnn ttrlliAnt fhji 'iHutllrWno' Influence of conditions across the' sea. -'Here we enjoy, among many other -Vriviteges, freedom ' of worship Ino ! :.tter what the denotrJn: ,lon): free. ,wis, free assembly;' froVi-tttrprise " vrir iff. . DnWl I II II. H '- ; V' free speech, a high standard of liv ing, and above all, Peace. Yes, for these on Thanksgiving Day, we are truly thankful. NICE EDITION FROM CHARLOTTE NEWS The infant salutes the graduate! A few days after our fourth anniver sary, a copy of the Charlotte News' Golden Anniversary Edition reached the editor's desk late last week 172 interesting pages, a huge copy that almost filled The Weekly's post office drawer. As heavy as the bundle was to lugj back to the office, it impresses us first as a concrete tribute to the various departments that cooperate with pre cision and speed to get out a metropo litan daily. Congratulations, Mr. Dowd to you and every member of the staff. The Anniversary edition was a oeauty. mars one way to aescrioei it, and a fitting marker for the half-1 century point. Fifty years of news papering, growing with the Pied- i fi, f Mf,-mt iji thousand now. Real grounds for ' honest pride. Iftn. hn aKIa thmirh-n lirA t t .v. t i WCIll UU tU LUG lUbUgiaVUiG BCV-HUJI, l Charlotte and the Piedmont Carolinas pictorialized. We could rave on for' hours about the Fiftieth Anniversary j Edition, but suffice us to say that the people served by the Charlotte News,, subscribers and advertisers alike, are well-served. Yes, the novice views with awe, and salutes the work of the master. CHARLES JOHNSON For a long time he was very ill at intervals; often he could not reach his office, but always he rallied and many friends were happy to see him on the streets again. His stability will be sorely missed by the Baptist Church, for which he served many years as treasurer. His many stations of trust and responsi bility evidence the esteem in which he was held by the people of Hert- ford ami Perquimans. j Mr. Charles Johnson loved this sec-i tion and, except for the stay at I Buies Creek, he spent his whole life j in Perquimans, and though his busi ness interests were varied, there was still time enough to stop and chat about minor developments and prob lems. Young and old alike shared in his good will, and a budding newspaper man remembers many business occa- sions that called him to Mr. Johnson's; office. The business always followed after a session of talk on "the news," in which Mr. Johnson always took a lively interest, even while his health gradually failed. . . ' The newspaperman also remembers the admiration with which he noted Mr. Johnson's returns from the nag ging seiges of illneBS. Always there was a sincere interest in local and world happenings, .and the newspa perman marveled again and again that he was not borne down to despair by his own dark troubles. a 1 . 1 it ..il.w .1 . 1 Ana so, wnne 11 uwim aeep Baa-T nw uw w r-uru PhAttlai inhnnAtt . 1 : um aiha naiT' that umkd aim while his presence is gone, his mem ory urges us on to conquer little ob stacles that would have been as noth 'ng compared to the concrete troubles that were his. . ' RETURN TO RICHMOND Mrs. A. B. Parker and son. Tommy,' have returned to their home at' Rich' inuh.J 1 1L.! -JI m.l. . 'P mond Va.,' after spending several days with Mrt. Parker's mother, Mrs. II. V, Lamb, at Belvidere. ' They were accompanied home by, Miss Madeline Lamb, who spent the week-end with tiiem."; ' , v 'iJtt ' , t : jiard to balance Chewing The Rag With Lucius Blanchard, Jr. SILLY SUITS, DEVELOPMENTS, MUSIC, EXCHANGE SYSTEM,! HITLER, BATES' DENTS BALL, CHATTER BOY, PRESI FOOTB ALL Add. this one to-your list of Silly Suits: Recently a London school teacher was awarded goodly sum, because, as a result of an auto acci dent in which she was involved, she developed an uncontrolable wink. We can imagine her embarrassment in winking at everyone and every- j thing She sees. Still, it may also ' nrnvo convenient sometimes to ex- ,an(1 rove that intercepted wafl unintended, ' I Speaking of developments, we are late this week with news of develop- ments on Armistice Day, but we wait- for Mlss, Mattl Saunders repor.( because we knew she was much better 1 informed on the subject of Peace than we are. Peace is a virtue far removed from the duties of newspa permen, and Miss Saunders' review arrived after we went to press here it is this week. so, ! Getting away from war and peace i for a moment, Joe Young, cleaner and dyer deluxe, and lover of fine yiolins, tells us that he had the honor of play-. ing a genuine Schweitzer instrument touch the ground in their short lives, in the Winfall auditorium last Thurs- which start in the brooder and end as day night. The name didn't mean a( drumsticks and white meat on some thing to us (it sounded like pretzels one's dinner menu, and beer) until we learned that' By his method, 500 Juicy broilers Schweitzers are valued from $1,600 can be raised each month in a space up and that this one4 was built in j 14 by 20 feet. The lives of these 1672. This old instrument, Joe says, feathered delicacies read like a jail was loaned to him by a Norfolk sentence, 30 days in the starting friend. The ancient fiddle had been, brooder, 80 days in the finishing cracked so many times that the back j brooder, and then to market and the resembled an inlaid work of art, and, dinner table. though we know not one thing about violins, Joe says the tone was mar- veious. ..... . Music reminds of radios, and radios remind us that a commentator Sun day night quoted . someone as favor ing an exchange system with Euro pean countries, whereby dissatisfied Americans would be traded for op pressed foreigners who want to leave their native lands. Wilbur and I are against the whole thing, and besides, we don't believe there is an-Americanl that much disgruntled- not even a I turned-off WPA worker. Mention of Europe . always brings up the name of Hitler, and "Hitler, 10 Days Ago Was On Top ' of the World," recites a headline. We didnt read the whole story, but so far as we can see 4ie still is. The world is likely to blow up under the Nazi ty rant any day now. but he's still on top. Like Bitting on an electric chair while someone repairs the wiring. ' - - Back 8gaIn to mon pieasant news, we note tha birth of a son to Mr. and .' . .'. - Mn. Robert Kates tin Xatnrdav. XMo- vemoer itftn. ine oouncmg -young- eter, undoubtedly already .viewed by bis proud: pap as a prospective, lull back, vfirst looked on this funny- old -world at thes. Bates' Massachusetts home. 1 i ' 't U' ' ' Coach' Bates left his duties .here late Friday afternoon and arrived in Springfield the next afternoon, five Hours oeiore jus son was pom. . ..I ....... t. . . ..-..- i. L : Don't look now,, all you swing and dance fans, but there will be another President's Birthday Ball next, year-ion January' 30th.' The 29th is the President's birthday, ' but it falls on it Sunday. Chairman of the ball, Linwood bJcmner, tipped us on that this one will be even bigger and better than the last, and you all remember the last one was a honey. Remember the slogan, "Dance Thai Others May Walk!" They danced here until they couldn't walk. This time some of the money taken in-will be kept and used at home, the remainder going as usu al to the Warm Springs Foundation for infantile paralysis work With so much Duke and Pitt talk on the cuff, we've almost lost track of the fact that the high school Indians themselves have just completed a not unsuccessful session, winning decisive victories in four instances and losing two gamea Not bad for a squad that lost 13 members in th firRt twn weeks of nractice and finished the eason with two crippled reguiar8 on the bench and two substitutes for re -placements. How about a banquet, Rotary? And we understand you've got big things planned for high school athletics from now on," some thing that has to do with reviving dead interest. If we were speaking of hobbies, here's one for the records. This fel low W. G. Newby, city clerk, in his spare time raises chickens that never MINNIE WILSON CIRCLE MEETS (The Minnie Wfison Circle of the Hertford Methodist Church met Tues day evening at the home of Mrs. R. A. White. Mrs. T. S.-White, presi dent, presided. Mrs. R. L. Knowles had charge of the program toi the evening, the subject being Thanks- giving. Interesting readings wenr given by several members. During the social hou Mrs. T. S. White was presented with many love' ly gifts, the occasion being her birth day. - , r A delicious salad course was served by the hostess to the following. s a Mesdames D. M. SharpRi E. Brinni R. T. Brinn, Mark Hathaway, RL. Snowies, B. . G. Koonce, William Landing, J. P. McNider, T. J. Nlxoir, Jr, Nathan Relfe, Simon Rutenberg, H..a Stokes, T. B. Sumner, W. N. Tucker, Charles Whedbee J," T. White,' T. S. White Herman Wins low, Dan . Williams, W.'G. Wright, J, S. Vick, E. S. Pierce, Maude Blan chard, N. 'W." Trueblood, 3. Q. Rob- erson, R.; 0. Murray, J. A.; Gault, Kate Blanchard and . guests, Mes-i dames F.; M.J Shamburger of Oxford, R. T. - White, Lethia ' Hill,. Robert White, J. Perry, E. L. Laughing house, Tom Perry, Howard Pitt, Charles Skinner and Miss Elizabeth Knowles,- - , . v ;. , " LOWER , ' ' - s Mn Its annual outlook Teport' for farm' labor, equipment and fertilizer, the U. S. .Bureau of Agricultural Economics points out that "the com bined level of farm wage rates and prices of Commodities u "I In 8'-cultur-1 pro iction . p" 1 V v 1 averEja a lit' la hn,r V 1 5 1" "1 i v F&Tfltoj LujlIS1 Progron In Itrlforil Mattie Saunders Elect ed President of New ; Group r OTHER OFFICERS Next Meeting Scheduled To Be Held Dec 3rd In tCpurt House, A local branch of the Women's In ternational League for Peace and Freedom was organized during the Armistice . Day activities at the Court House when Miss Mattie Saun ders, vigorous exponent " of ' peace movements, was elected president of the group which-came into being with a strength of approximately .forty members. As Miss Saunders planned, . there was an automobile parade, with the cars displaying Peace 'banneret Later,! C. R. Holmes, local attorney, deliver ed a stirring speech on War end Peace. Miss Saunders felt that the program was successful though a great number of people did not take part. Mrs.- Bertha S. White was elected vice-president of the organization, Mrs. Mary. .White Winslow, secretary, and Mrs. Myrta E. Winslow, treas- uirer. . . The next meeting of the League is scheduled to be held in the Court house on December 3rd, at 2:30 p. m., when the president hopes that a large number of new members ynl be on hand. Everyone is invited to attend. PENDER ROAD NEWS Mrs. V. L. Proctor has returned home" from Norfolk, where She has been visiting her daughter, Mrs. W. W. Hanbury. Mrs. Dan Bassinger and two daughters, Frances JLane and Irene, of Plymouth, spent the week-end with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. J. Ed Lane. Mrs. W. W. Hanbury and daughter, Betty Lee, of Norfolk, are visiting her parents, Mr. and Mrs. V. L. Proc tor. v J. E. Eaves, Miss Adelaide Eaves, Mrs. Louis Eaves and son, Howard, called at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Wallace Morgan, of near Cumber land, Monday afternoon. Just Habit. According to an economist, money is the people's servant. Here today and gone tomorrow. The Humorist, London. TAVLM EDENTON. N. C Wednesday, Thursday and Friday, Not. 23, 24 aitf 2S - Fox Movietone News of Edenton's Peanut Pictures . REGULAR ADMISSION Thursday, November 24 THANKSGIVING "DAY Boh Hope and Shirley Ross in, "THANKS FOR THE KM" Friday, November 25 - , t. r r ' , 's 1 ' , ' Cbnstanee Bennett and Vincent Price in v. " "SERVICE DE LUXE" -0 Saturday, November 2ft Bob Steele in . - "IWOAMPn urn UUiUUiUU SfiiLLLI lULiULIIO i ! PICK TRACY RETURNS" No. Sunday, November 27 MATINEE Dick Powell and Olivia Dellavilland in llESD Monday, November .2& . The Dionne ' ' With JEArJ HERSnOLT Tuesday, November 29-i- . ' Janet Gaynor Robert Montgomery anil Tr.c. zt 'TIiriE !0 Wednesday, Noven.ber CD " Jackie Ccopcr in . 1j m DAY AJ tvy, r dr GET YOUIl FALL SUIT ,1 , AT SIMON'S LARGE SELECTION OF SEASON'S NEWEST PATTERNS Double or Stogie Breast, Styles' 4" -4 FOR AN ALL WOOL SUIT BOYS SUITS $4.95 to $9.75 Shoes - Shirts Hats - Caps Ties -Sox AT . SIMM'S HERTFORD, N.C flSfAW WE HAVE THE SHOWS I rv nflinrncw 4 XL. QUR clANG COMERT S:30: NIGTIT .1K ' ' j V. TO GET' I Quintuplets in! J and CLAIRE TREVOR - ' , ."C-.' '. ... ,s; , , . Tone m HAS (CT:- :1A i4 . til,- ,:x $15.95 up , 3
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