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. Page pour V" THE Perquimans Weekly Published, every Friday by The Perquimans ' Weekly, a partner ship consisting of Joseph G. Campbell end Max R. Campbell, at "Hertford, N. C. MAX CAMPBELL Editor SUBSCRIPTION RATES One Year $1.25 Six Months .75 North Carolina i PBESS ASSOCIATION) Entered as second class matter November 15, 1934, at postofflce at Hertford, North Carolina, un der the Act of March 1879. Advertising rates furnished by request. Cards of thanks, obituaries, resolutions of respect, etc., will be charged for at regular adver tising rates. FRIDAY, MAY 3, 1940 BIBLE THOUGHT FOB WEEK UNITY OF GOD'S PROGRAM: He that is not with me is against me; and he that trathereth not with me scattereth abroad, 31 att. 12:30. Politics seem to be taking a one from the weather, as the days grow wanner politics (ret hotter. The chief topic of -conversation seemingly is the Gubernatorial xace. Rumor has it that a project is i the making that will mean much to Hertford. The Weekly hopes the pro ject, which calls for the widening of Grubb and Church Streets, and the inetattktian ef a white-way along Church Street, will be rushed through without delay. Nothing, in our be lief, nrould improve the appearance of Hertford as. much as this. The Grammar School Bids are now being received for the construction work of alterations and auditorium addition for the grammar school building. It is indeed gratifying to know that a plan has been worked out that will mean the improvement of this building. From aH information The Weekly has been able to gather this building has been sadly neglected. In fact, if the building w in the condition re presented tyjW . . . nothing short of a maor iteration would make it into a buiioing suitame to nouse school children. We are not aware of the exact nature of the re-modeling work that is to be done on the building, neither are we aware of the condition the building is to be in when the con tractor has completed his work . But we can not help but wonder . . . With the national government lit erally giving away millions of dol lars, here in America ... we dare say this money will never be repaid to the Alphabetical Order of Lenders . . . for the construction of modern buildings such as post offices, school buildings, town halls, community centers, etc., why should. Hertford be satisfied with a patched-up job on it's grammar school. It seems to us that this is a penny-wie-pound-foolish sort of project that cofdd be bettered by the building of! a completely new school house that would in all probabilities last lopger than the present one has, and which would give the children the type of class rooms, sanitary and heating facilities they are entitled to hive. Exploring A Gold Mine iln the peanut the people of East ern North Carolina have an unexplor ed gold mine located in their own backyards, states an editorial in the Rocky Mount Telegram. Finding the gold in this mine can be accom plished with the application of in feWigent thought and modern re search' methods to develop new uoco xuiu Wlla ilia J. swws iui uiiio il i 1 ! .11 . J. 1 ,. crop mat is ncn m an iooa eie V ; ments, the editor believes. S .a 1 1 it i n bhiyia animrtn shuts r.np niipn- lion wny peanut larmers snouiq sen t their ppaputs for . froni. three to four : ?; fents 'per pound' send them out1 of the fttawi tfc be It Waned ,artdiAortecl sntt pen buy them back from oustateiany stf!e;meiltT6f. ttefW'inchef,pub ' processors at prices from two to valUS? ptss3naicagjni :; : Hundred times as trrtntii whT hmiln i , not the farmers do this work of Sorting and grading their peanuts at ; pome,' as potatoes and' fruits are , igraded and to some extent tobacco, . jthns keeolnir this mniin unit th ' jprofft from their labor in their own ? Stats and in their own pockets? , There is no reason except that we s have failed to grasp the opportunities and possibilities that lk ready for development. If it is profitable to , millers elsewhere, it would be pro- fiUble to farmers and millers right I here where the peanut is. grown to mill ur; own peanuts and. market them, Peanuts may be, cleaned and graded: by milts on the farms or in , North Carolina communities as read,-"-fly as cotton is ginned, Here is a ' section of, the gold mine .that is in ; out own backyard hat has not been Pinlored. v , But not- onOy in the ' first grading Fgs. 7 WW0 vbO 60 TJACKWARD, Jrftis SORT "I I f 5wl Or HMINtT HAS I and milling .epeastions, the peanut offers other great possibilities that should yield this section rich re turns if intelligently developed. The Rocky Mount paper sees these possi bilities, yielding to Tesearth, but de clares that the effort must be made by the farmers fhemsetoes-: "It is an admitted tact that the peanut produces as much oil for shortening as does cotton seed, but manufacturers of cotton 'il deriva tives have spent mTtlkms to develop that industry and find new uses for cotton products. The consequence is a limited market for peanuts, while cotton oil uses have given that in dustry wide-spread ramifications touching many varied manufacturing interests. Rich as the peanut is in oil and food value, it is not impossi ble that uses could be found for every part of the plant, and peanut growers could profit from all of them. "Why not give some intelligent thought and research to develop ment of uses for the peanuts, while cotton oil users have given that in dustry much publicity right under the noses of North Carolina farmers It pffers abundant opportunities for something to he done, and if peanut growers would have God help them, they must help themselves 'by giving consideration to the development .of this cheap and potentially profitable product." Bertie Ledger-Advance. SO WHAT? By WHATSO DID YOili EVER CONSIDER THE GIRAFFE? It has always given me a peculiar sort of pleasure to watch the giraffe. Strange of shape with an awkward sort of grace. A coat so smooth and sleek and like the finest silk to touch. .-- The physi cal proportions of the giraffe are in teresting to contemplate. All neck and front legs! From stern $o prow he towers up and up until, atop that great long neck, you come upon that gentle, little, silent; head! What great giraffe thoughts are in that little head we cannot know because of all the vertebrates he is perhaps the most silent being practically voiceless. I h a jce watched the strange animal many, many hours all told and tried if I could not, at least once, catch the merest suspicion of a sound coming from that little head. Never have I been rewarded for my patience. The giraffe, his neck and his si lence came, to my mind last week as I read that very interesting column of this paper entitled Chewing The Rag. You see, several times' I ,have mentioned "candidates"; At one time this column was so bold as to set forth certain tests for the exam ination of candidates as a means of arriving at a fair judgment as to their qualifications for office. . Of course, -1 mentioned no particular candidate; ; ,H could il . r, rather j why should 1? ' With one1 exception the , candidate! iot senator, theyr jal stand frt the aame platform so far as GimelYJfriTaMt.'i r " i L - 1 I i ) 1 I -Wall, .Jim Juat not mterested in tha platform so accordingly I can hardily be much interested in any. candidate! Still, I was right interested when I began to read Chewing The -Rag and pobx that the author was going to "stick his neck out," call names and "look 'em over." The sparks were going to fly and he might suffer the consequences of those sparks start ing a first Perhaps he would even use some of - the standards I had tabulated for. the examination of can didates, apply' them to each individual and so shoV just theones we ought to vote; for or at least the ones he was gDiHjT tO"K totJ , But as I read the well written article I found that 1 was quite mistaken 1 So far as I eoujd ascertain the "writer wanted to vote for them aUT Each- one . was oualif led for;' the office he or she ragbtl !the 4jualificat; i given 'did not appear Wbe of wiC importance THE FACTS VPAlU P0WN' V GONE ' ' 1 f : but they did seem to satisfy! At least one we were told "could yodel," others could "mix well" (that's am biguous), others . had been, to Ra leigh and lived through it, thereby' showing stamina I suppose, another had "run a newspape", 1 etc., etc. end so, well, apparently they all qualified! Yes, the giraff6 has a long neck stuck out in the world but he is the most sMent of the animals! He says nothing, not a noise he makes that can be heard. TWO BITS OF NEWS WE NOT ED THIS PAST WEEK of no im portance probably but just the same I wondered. The Baptist Church is on the outlook for a new pastor. The Episcopal Church is electing of ficers. Perhaps it isn't, but it seems to me that both items are of inter est and importance. It does matter to the community the kind of men that represent the Christian Church as pastors! It also matters the kind of local citizen that a Church sees fit to honor by asking to serve on its governing board. Unless, perhaps, Christianity does not matter. Think it over. BURGESS NEWS Mr. and Mrs. Clemon Bass of Pow ellsville, spent the week-end with Mr. and Mrs. Walton Lane., Mrs. Bass was formerly Miss Maude Hollowell of Hertford, Route Three. Mrs. James E. Totten of Panama Canal Zone, is the guest .of her sister, Mrs. J. B. Basnight, this week. Mr. and Mrs. C. R. Lane had as guests at dinner on Sunday Mr. and Mrs. C. W. Lane, Mr. and Mrs. W. E. Lane, Mr. and Mrs: Claude Long, Mr. and Mrs. John Elliott, Mr. and Mrs. Irvin Long, Miss Maude Miller, William and Ernest White. THOUSANDS SAVE WITH "After wood sad cod, our Tyrofas .Gftf Smicc 1 a U eoin It BmIcm cooking so much eluUf,' cleaner sad fatter matlMve burnt every week." 1 never realized how audi Tyrofaaf Gat Service meant to my family until wc began using for oar water heater. Now, nods of at would be without tbit con venience that com so Iitd let wjfMf " "Out here In the 'if dailv was a until we Ja - -M h!'ss many ooiian avers "Going over y account! last , sight I figured out ho sweh k to cook A meal tot ary fasalr. of four with jfrnbBt Gat Strtkt. Yoarecibtt f 9 ctBtr Ot of the thing 1 like moat boat Tyiofax GaS Service Is its otter dependability. We have , never beea .without plenty of gas for our bomv fince we io" (tailed it Ohl work It atvetr T VZ t-' 1 1 1 " I. I V With Lucius What with politics, and crime, and snow in April, and endless war in. Europe, we thought you might enjoy this as we did. , , We don't know wlio to give credit, tn . we mcked it un from the At lanta Envelope Company's "In Trans it." If you've seen it .before, just pass it off as something worth, read ing again. . . SOCIALISM If you la-vie two cows, give one to your neighbor. COMMUNISM If you have two cows, you give them to the govern ment and the government; then gives you some milk. . ... vjj.i ' ' ' FACISM If you have two cows, you keep the cows and give the milk to the government; and then the government sells ym some milk. NEW IDEALISM if you have two cows, vou shoot one and milk the other; then pour your milk down the drain. NAZISM If you have two. cows, the government shoots y b u 8,nd keeps the cows; CAPITALISM If you have two cows, sell one and buy a bull. Business of sympathizing with Ed en on for being placed in the out skirts of Wancheee on Roanoke Is land in the Department of Conserva tion and Development's publication of misinformation on points of inters est in North .Carolina. - . ' If we ever get around to erecting a memorial to W. O. Saunders, the peerless editor, author and writer who died last Thursday afternoon, the inscription will read . . . "To1 A Champion of Causes Lost and Oth erwise." In our way of thinking, W. O. was the type of man every community needs one of. One is plenty, but every little town needs one W. O. Saunders. His was the courage that made him write what he saw and knew . . . and the devil take the hindmost. To believe in (signs is occasion to place special emphasis on one down in Swan Quarter. Words lettered on a store window there proclaim to all and sundry that The Berry Com pany iare merchants and undertakers. Spring may be here, but don't bank on it. The flowers and birds and streams and trees and tempera ture and. fluffy white clouds and April showers and that loggy feeling all say It's Spring . . . 'but a visitor to Raleigh who lives in Edenton told somebody who lives in Hertford who told somebody who works around at the Medical Building who told us that the Weather Man in Raleigh said we might just as well get ready for snow on May 16th. The round-about quotation had it that the Edenton visitor was in the ' Weather Bureau headquarters in Ra leigh and happened ' to mention the Easter snowstorm as something out of the ordinary. It was hard to be lieve the Weather Man wasn't kid- over die sate, 4 rnra -t-frtuu-'-IAtnmmmtKtm quimtm'mmmmmmttaimmr r-"jwr-i i fynr-i "r-rnmriirr'iffliMm mumrfr ' ' r : . .... - . ' .i.fc.ll'f '.-.'' ... . I '.- . - ' ' :i!"'. - - I All yond die city gas mains axe swirigiag-tt fcPyrofl' Gs Strvkt. They've found it me cjaic&v cksft, cxoaomkal wsy to cook, heat wstet, make ke. They've found new freedom from kitcheo drudgery , . . new fioodoess in thek favorite dfahes . . with mis modem time and mooey-nviag fuel) j mPnoi$? gal la tU gatf . . not a Ho " coun try, getting major tooblem meat is delivered bome tot only 99.79. inorougbiy de- Tyionur- Gat pendabl )AAi l"i It(7 dam SiSaSWi srrn New U4 Rates ' - rion, water heating or boos iusioi spedsl low rates available for "fyrofair in addition cookvtx. - 1.- .' '.'' M'i the step and ,"''' JACOB IljQBOWSKi; Manager Blanchard, Jr. ding when he said a snow-storm , was scheduled on his charts for May 16. What we don't know is whether he said the snow was due to fall on North Carolina or some points north of the Arctic Circle. We were looking forward to going all the way through this column to day without even one little mention of politics' when Mr. Hosea M. Lane of Poughkeepsie, ' wrote, in . ta. jsaj that he knew , he was sticking his heck out. but he believes that "Pres ident Roosevelt will run again and that helll' be elected." "I have been right twice," Mr Lane added, apparently as an after- thuj'-ht, "so can affrd to be wrong fince,' SNOW HILL NEWS Miss Ruby, Keaton of Hertford, was the 'week-end guest of Mrs. Mary A. Keaton. Miss Annie Mae Matthews of Hert ford, spent the week-end with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. W. M. Matth ews. . Misses Eunice Harrell and Lucille Cartwright spent the week-end with Mr. and Mrs. Mason Sawyer at Old Neck. . . Mrs. W. M. Matthews was in Eli zabeth City Tuesday morning, Mrs. Moody Harrell visited Mrs Q.. W. Gregory at, Woodvfflle, Monday afternoon. Mrs. Jack Benton is confined to her home by illness. Mr. and Mrs. James Harrell spent Sunday with Mr. end. Mrs. Ralph Harrell. Miss Elinor Jordan visited Mrs. Marvin Benton a few days last week. Mr. and Mrs. Marvin Benton of Old .Neck, and Mr. and Mrs. Elmer Wood visited Mr. and Mrs. William Whedbee Sunday afternoon. Mr. and Mrs. Moody Harrell and Mr. and Mrs. Ralph Harrell visited Mr. and Mrs. Jack Benton Sunday afternoon. A. J. MAXWELL OFFERS A Balanced Program of Progress The Charlotte Observer, North Carolina's largest newspaper says: "Without in any way proposing to commit itself as to the Governor ship, The Observer thinks it entirely faithful to the facts to remark at the outset, in connection with Mr. Maxwell, that there is no private citizen in North Carolina comparable with him in the matter of knowledge of fiscal affairs. And we may say that, in order to say thai . when Mr. Maxwell proposes a highway building program, the people may be content in ,the conviction that he knows what he is talking about." Vote For A. J. Maxwell For Governor This Advertisement Paid For By Friends f Mr. Maxwell in Perquimans County " TYROFAT GAS SERVIC families livine be and installed at your wpply is guaranteed awtosuticI 1w to w tgm mm ajaaia X uc CBaaawnf oenca, anil'-0 wu W-tW i. cjUod- u wetMuw Gas when it pEPENDAClE GAS tiMiCS , y 5 V r tjond tht Gat Mdux ALBEJARLE iMTURAL GAS EDENTON, N. C. NEW HOPE NEWS " ; " h ' 1 - Mr. and Mrs Bill Edwards and sons, Mark Wood anq Billie, of NorV 1T 1. C 1 VT view, Vtt., spent punuay wiui iurn- Edwards' parents, Mr. .and Mrs, W, W. Spencer. Mrs. Ed Turner is able to be du after several days' illness. Miss Vida Banks and Mrs. R. D Benson visited Mr. and Mts. Rudolph Banks in Williamston Monday morn ing. En route home they visited Mrs. George Hoskins in Edenton in the afternoon. Mr. -and Mrs. W. W. Spencer were in Elizabeth City Tuesday. ,Lpu Walston and" a friend of Washington, D. C, spent' Saturday night with his mother-:n-laW, Mrs. Nettie Barclift. Mrs. Bardlift ac companied them home Sunday to visit her daughter, Daphne. Miss Celia Blanche Dail, a stu dent at E. C. T. C, Greenville, was the week-end guest of her parents, Mr. and Mrs. W. E. Dail. Mrs. M. M. Spivey and son, Matt, Mrs. J. A. Sawyer and Mrs. E. A. Turner were in Elizabeth City Tues day and attended the show, Rebecca. Mr. and Mrs. C. C. Sawyer of Portsmouth, Va., visited Mr. and Mrs. J. A. Sawyer Sunday. The condition'bf Mrs. E. G. Banks, a patient at Duke Hospital, Durham, is said to be somewhat improved. Hungry? Stop at Jack's Place FOR Sandwiches and Soft Prinks THEN ENJOY A GAME OF BILLIARDS JACK'S PUCE HERTFORD, N emd, :r. for m wrt A -1runy-i . u -s is used for.... C:::?AtlY C. V .1 . - ... 57"'
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