Perquimans Weekly
Published every Friday by The
Perquimans Weekly, .'. partner
ship consisting of - Joseph G.
Campbell and Max R. Campbell,
at Hertford, N. C.
MAX CAMPBELL Editor
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FRIDAY, JULY 19, 1940
BIBLE THOUGHT FOR WEEK
NO DESPAIR COMES TO THE
FAITHFUL: Now why dost thou
cry out aloud? Is there no king in
thee? Is thy counselor perished T
Micah 4:9. '
Here And There !
What with every county surround
ing Perquimans publishing its budget
for the coming fiscal year the budget j
for Perquimans County is conspicu
ous by its absence. The tax rate
has been made public but evidently,
one is to guess how that sum is
broken down and used for the various
departments of the county govern-
ment. I
They say that coming events fore
cast a shadow . . . with barely two
months remaining before the opening
of the second Perquimans County
Fair it is expected that the sponsors
will shortly begin preliminary work
to make thia event the biggest crowd
gathering Hertford has ever had.
One well-known man told us that
he disconnected his radio the past
two nights . . . just so he couldn't be
bothered by the New Deal Conven
tion. I
What Is The Crisis?
We have always been interested in
history. No doubt that is one of
the reasoaa why we listen to politi
cal conventions, speeches and the
like. Foiv whether we realize it or
not, thatns history in the making.
For sometime now, we have been
hearing about the crisis confronting
the United States. If our memory is
correct the subject began sometime
during the past winter. We realized
then and we realize now, that there
is a crisis confronting us, but we be
lieve that like the river that changes
its course ... the crisis has changed
its trend. In other words, to our
belief, we were confronted with a
war crisis ... so long as France re
mained a free nation, with free terri
tory upon which this government of
ours could land men to fight . . . that
terror was before us. Now that
France has passed into oblivion . . .
we can not bring ourself to believe
that this nation is near a war . . .
certainly we are not near an in
vasion of this country. At least not
for five to ten years . . . and . even
with all our red tape, if we cannot
prepare to defend ourselves in that
length of time, we will probably get
what we deserve.
However, to our way of thinking,
the crisis that confronts us today is
en economical one. The reports giv
en out by our government surveys
show that we still have enormous
surplusage of crops . . . and if condi
tions in Europe turn to the worse,
the world will probably see Interna
tional trade on a barter system,
something in which we, in this coun
try, with our high standard of liv
ing, can not compete . . . then we
would see a fight for our very exist
ence. Peace Plank
The Republican at
Philadelphia
attempted to take,
lerw
thfe mantle b
piish the Dem
labeled wa
Rosevelt n&lVi
bdx when he declare-J the new de-1
.fense program would, htmei.for.no..
European wars. Now Senator Wheel
er, and others are putting great pres
sures on the Democratic convention
at' Chicago to fashion a "Mac
1 plank" which will win the isolation
' 1st vote.
2mL:
North Carolina v.
PBEgS ASSOCIATION)
dcratt Jnto , a. corner I ASTIUJE. BAY. lj4p.and France
V imt President: Mourns. "; Thl T errDfcertj, Fraterri-
,,;V'" :'vt til tYlA nAMAM.. Tk . . J
i jSt tne rauon. ram the Party! stand
', ..-'point it would lose the favor Presi-
; dent Roosevelt has won ini.
i , matte resistance to totalitarian as
, . r gression. Ana iron we standpoint
of intelligent .debate f American
, foteigp Mlldr hmf pretense by either
; ; ' pafty, &U itia? offering peace fo the
' people is deceptive and jtultifybg.
Tie wfif-iiV defense
' prxrra,sLwi j.iauiy tiiat no one
csi rwiriRtee t to America. t , j.
rr - T-rt-rii i e, ''..Anybody
1
JXM;3?,; tfa!-y, Fx-ernity.. - France hM
HE WHO GETS KICKED
parties attempt to "sell" themselves
to voters on promises to keep out of
war, they will merely conduct what!
Herbert Hoover called an "auction"1
instead of an election. They will be
pandering to one of the weaknesses (
of democracy at a time when the
United States should be demonstrat
ing the strength of self-government.
We do not believe the people will be
deceived. They know that the "people
of other countries also wanted toi
keep out of war. They know other
peoples made war more certain by
failing earlier to unite against ag
gression. They know that the ques
tion is really, How can America best
defend its interests and ideals?
Christian Science Monitor. !
Armament Is
Expensive
Economists have estimated that'
Hitler's Germany expended half of,
the national income, for a period of;
at least five years, upon the develop
ment of -the greatest military ma-'
chine in the history of the world, j
It is said that the rearmament of'
Germany represents the equivalent i
of twenty billion dollars a year forj
five years. Back of this expenditure,
is the intensive organization of the
entire German people into the com
ponent parts of a fighting nation.
Nothing else interferred with the
exigencies of 'military efficiency. I
It is th. unfortunate condition of
world affairs that forces the United;
States to extend its defense prepara
tions to record proportions. If we!
are to remain free, in a world that'
is largely dominated by aggressive,
totalitarian states, we must have the
power to meet their challenge. It is
a big order for a democracy and onej
that must be filled without loss of.
time. J
The menace to the United States j
that stems from a Hitler-dominater! I
Europe is directed against our eco-!
nqmic strength as well as our politi
cal and military position. The Ger
man system of barter represents the
acme of business amalgamation, with
all Europe included in one super
trust, endowed with the powers of
government and utterly unscrupu-l
lous in its dealings with the balance
of the world.
Because Germany must export to
prosper in times of peace, we might
as well prepare ourselves for an
economic offensive even if the threat
of immediate warfare is remote.
For this reason it seems to us that
the United States is wise in prepar
ing an economic offensive, designed
to protect our hemisphere from the
totalitarian invasion.
The plan to outbid the dictators
for the resources of South America
may cost some money but it will be
well-spent if it prevents Hitler,
Mussolini and, maybe, Japan, from
consolidating the advantages that ac
crue to them through their present
military positions.
SO WHAT?
, By WHATSO , ,
Family, Fatherland. -1 TH e 1 lattei
W0ttoto imported froml Germany or
rather it is forced upon the noodle
of France by their German masters.
The sad part of it all is that if the
French people had but adopted that
motto long ago together, with the
classic motto of liberty, ' Equality
and FVtrrrftv. IVuv wnuM tni h
la Belle France the . beautiful
France beloved and envied of the
worloV labor1 is thfljprioe that man
matt pay for all that Is worth while
la life; the integrity and parity of
the Familr most shove all else he
maintained if , there is to be an even
half-way decent State loyalty-to th
State, h Fatherland, must be ever
foremost in the hearts of citizens if
it LwWr Wt-S;
out laoor.ft-'wuuut ,iu.y .integrity,
without iijte stion to the
Fatherland tiers can be no liberty,
riea''4rom thatvit7, Equality Jls charged' to' Labor.
"St
'jmjjf J0
paid the price may the United
States take heed.
CONGRATULATIONS, "MISS
ALICE"! We do not know from our
own experience whether through the
years you have been a great teacher
because we are one of the few who
missed the opportunity of being
helped along the way by your teach
ing and your influence. As we have
listened to your former pupils tell
about you it seemed, indeed, that
they must be looking back along the
years through rosy colored binocu
lars! But now the mouse has slip
ped out of the trap and the truth is
revealed before men as to your
greatness as a teacher even unto
this present day! Two teachers it
takes to fill your place and one of
those a man! To fill your place, did
we say? Well, not exactly that.
With a dwindling population in the
county it follows that the children
are not quite as plentiful as in the
"good old, days" so the two it re
quires to carry on in your stead will
not have so great a responsibility as
you had perhaps. Anyway congra
tulations, Miss Babb, for the work
you have done! To your successors,
we are glad to see you and may you
have the power to carry onl ,
WALT DISNEY AND THE W. C.
T. U. Walt Disney makes good pic
turesinteresting, artistic, , clean,
worth seeing. So good in fact are
his pictures that on two occasions
the State Theatre, with the consent
of the Town Fathers and the approv
al of the great majority of our citi
zens, has shown them on Sunday.
Now along comes the W. C. T. U.
and petitions the Fathers to ban all
pictures in Hertford on Sunday!
Careful, girls, careful! It almost
looks like putting ' a ban on Walt!
Now, Disney has another picture on
the way and we are anxiousmto see
THOUSANDS SAW WITH
"After wood sad coaL one
Tytofta" Gat Service -is a
blmirtg. It Makes cooking so
Bsadbt tsshf, flttntr aod
hiisf that I save seaw evaey
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Tyrofax Gat Service atsaat to
family antil we btgsa pst
foe oar water btatac Now,
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.family of fear with Tyrofssf
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' With Ludua Blanchard, Jr.
DEPRESSION YOUTHS' UTOPIA
It ia difficult for - an old-timer
who palled onion weeds - from the
neighbor lawns t the magnificent
price of a cent a dozen not to view
enviously the opportunities of youth
todaythe Opportunities' ; of depres
sion-reared youth.
Today youngsters (17 to 2&U
have forced on them the opportuni
ties that youths of ten or 'twelve
years ago would have given then
buck-teeth for.
For never before has the govern
ment extended youth the privilege of
learning a trade and drawing a sal
ary while the learning was in pro
gress (except in service circles).
But before we go any further, let's
all agree on the class of youth we
are talkirtg about ....
This concerns" neither the paupers
nor the rich, but it touches the larg
est class of all; the children of fam
ilies who grimly but respectably
bear the everyday expenses and
hardships of living, but are cramped
like hell by the first outside expense;
ie, hospital bills and shoes for the
Not today, but twelve years ago if
these youngsters finished high school
they left with a smattering of Latin
and French and no uses to put them
to. Had they never finished high
school thev would have been no less;
equipped to command specialized
jobs. The mill hand s son became a .
millhand and the farmer's daughter
married the share-cropper's son.
All this was pre-depression.
Then came the depression, the
New Deal, NYA, CCC and Youth's
Utopia.
Never before has there been
dumped in youths' lap the opportun
ity to learn mechanics, cooking and
forestry while the government foots
the bill and hands out comfortable
salaries on the side.
Never before'
has the government made either of
these offers, not to mention putting ,
them together.
This. is Heaven for underprivileg -
ed youth ....
In the NYA, girls wean take in-
struction in handicraft, clerical work
and various other trades we don't
recall at the moment, while the gov-(
ernment hands them $14 a month
as an inducement.
Such a system was never dreamed
of twelve or thirteen years ago be
fore the government degenerated in
to an administration of alphabet sets,
and when Henry Clay Sullivan and
Yours Truly organized the Drift
wood Lumber Company. We rowed
it. Please, you Who Watch Care
fully the Unregenerate, don't bring
too much pressure to bear on the
Fathers! They might forbid all Sun
day pictures and then we might nol
see Walt's next'ii
THE PEOftQUEMANlS RED CROSS
We have been asked to say anothei
word about the Local Chapter of the
Red Cross. How can we? How can
a fellow write something about nothing?
PMIUMIUIIIII........ -
"All over die state, families Hying be
jrond die dtf gas mains are swinging to
fcPyrofax" Gas Service. They've ioood k
die ejaicje, clean, economical mn to cooky
heat water, make ice. They've found new
freedom from kitchen drudgery i new
goodness m theit favorite (rushes , widt
tins modern time tact money-Mving foci?
asy
TnotMiT gat is tear
aid. ' "Fyrofax" gas
Mr
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coaotty, gMtfag v .vmt U doUvered sad instslltd at your
maior oroblttB home for onlt $.75. Tlwroushly de-
fesss food savss as
doUan overs eMttth,- Wt tsnjs lot use
0 Kssvtnca; tuns
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mfamrurta inbw;r
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his .boat down;, (he river; towed back
old -.floating logs, sawed thent Into
lengths 'and Bplit them up.. )
We had a steady customer in his
grandfather, J. P. Jessup, and ld
him all the fire-wood we could get.
We were learning something, too-,
not a trade ut that "if you have
somehjnj JS-WH-. JJSi
it."
A short time later we opened a
chicken ranch. A hundred chicks
cost us about four bucks,, but the
business collapsed when all except
15 chicks died within a week. Wej
concluded there was something we
didn't know about chicken-farming j
so we went back to the lumber in-:
dustry .v. something we did know. ;
With Henry Clay we mowed the
Methodist Church lawn for 60 cents. I
'ihe job took all day, with one of us
pushing an4 tne other pulling. ,
With Henry Clay and Alton Park-,
er we picked cottoi. and ' dug pota-1
toes, we carried newspapers and gro
ceries and hand was. mat's tne way ,
fellows made money in those not I
"the good old days" before it was
possible to draw funds from the gov-;
eminent under any one of a hundred
different guises
Trv to reconcile those pre-depres-
sion days with the present picture
and it's easy to see why we would
have fainted dead away at the proB-
pect of a job that paid real money)
while we learnea a uraae.
Fourteen ;
dollars a monm, unuer wre
ten hours work! More than a dol
lar an hour? It would have been
too much.
These aren't sour grapes, but the
present system would have fitted in
almost as well a dozen years ago as
it does now.
. J IV. XTVA fr
And here's hoping that too many
neonle don't make the mistake oi
wagering large amounts on the bet
that Wendell L. Willicie win oe
blanked in Perquimans County when
I the Novembei election rolls around
' As tnings stand at the moment,
j the Republican-Democrat is going to
J get a lot of local Democratic votes
not New Deal votes we said Demo-
;cratic votes.
For the surest sign of WillkieB
' strength is revealed in opposition's
pallid attempts to paint his spontah
eous popularity as a carefully-plan
ned campaign that took nearly as
long to Work out as Hitler required
to prepare Germany for war.
(This would have been all wrong
had the New Deal Convention in
'Chicago gone haywire and nominated
somebody other than F. D. R.)
SNOW HILL NEWS
Mr. and Mrs. Henry Harrell and
children, of Richmond, Va., spent
several days with Mr. and Mrs.
Jesse Harrell.
Mrs. Mary A. Keaton has returned
home after a visit witiv Mr. and Mrs.
Howard Matthews, at. Norfolk, Va. ...
Mr. and Mrs. J. L. Harrell, Sr., of
Norfolk, Va., spent their vacation
visiting relatives and friends in the
community.
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i Mrs, G. W.,Gregoryand 'MrSriMax,
Griffin, of Woodville; Mrs. Edward
Gregory and Mrs. Ralph Mercer, of -Elizabeth
City, ,vfcited Mrs,, Moody
Harrell Wednesday afternoon." ; J J V
Thomas and' Norman Barelift of.
Nixonton, spent -several ; days with, p
Mr. and Mrs. Ralph Harrell recently.
1 Mrs. Marvin Benton and son, oti
Old Neck, visited Mrs. Ralph Harrell W
Monday afternoon. ,
Mrs. Benjamin Smith spent ' Wed-'1'
nesday with , Mrs. Max GriULiy.
;Mr. and Mrs. Jesse Harrell1 and - ':
Miss Eunice Harrell visited Mr. and
Mrs, MV.M. Hurdle, Jn Elizabeth, City
Sunday ''afternoon.7 V 1 J
Mr. and Mrs. Ralph Harrell visited ;
Mrs. Shelton Barelift, at Albemarle " UJ
HospitalElizabeth City, Sunday af- -
ternoon.
Mr. and Mrs.' Carson Jordan, Mr. '
and Mrs. George Benton, Mr. and
Mrs. Elmer Wood, Mr. and Mrs. J.
I Harrell visited Mr. and . Mrs.
Willie Saunders, at Weeksville, Sun
day afternoon.
MORE ABOUT
A WEEK
(Continued Ti-on. I'age One
usually consisted of eight or nine
dozen eggs, cereal, seven quarts of
milk, hot cakes and syrup. And
somehow the troop made away with
900 pounds of ice during the week.
(It gets hot sometime at Nags
Head.)
The eating was done inside the
Nixon Cottage, but most of the boys
preferred to sleep outside in one of
the three tents they pitched near the
Nixon Cottage. Some nights there
were as many as seven in one tent.
All the boys had a filing at kitch
en duty and came away none the less
prepared to dine at supper on ham
or chickeii and plenty of vegetables.
Unidentified friends at the beach
were very cordial to the troop; once
or twice they were set up to ice
cream for the whole outfit. They
were even given whole bunches of
bananas, and two home-cured hams.
There were supervised hikes, too;
a seven-mile jaunt down to the Nags
Head Coast Guard Station and back,
and another one over to the Wright
Brothers Monument and back to the
cottage through the beautiful Nags
bead Woods.
Early in the week the Scouts cut
a 20-foot flag pole, planted it in
front of the cottage, attached the
flag and raised it at dawn with, ap
propriate ceremony. The banner
was lowered promptly at dusk while
Bugler Jim MoNider sounded the
Color Call. Jim got the boys up, too
at 6:30, with Reveille.
Present atgthe encampment, and in
charge of Scoutmaster Howard Pitt,
were the Bob White Patrol, thf
Flaming- Arrow Patrol, the Hound
Patrol and the Eagle Patrol. Com
mittee Member C. P. Morris, and Bob
Morris and Lawrence Towe also
spent a few days at Scout Camp
Quarters.
The funds to make the encamp
jnent possible were given by local
merchants and individuals in Hert
ford. Each Scout paid five dollars
for his share of the expense. They
returned last Sunday. ,
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