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1 f - 7 :' 'PAG1' ft)l!tr '"H it PERQUIMANS' WEEKLY'- !HRTT$RT KT VFRlbAY, ' toPTBltBER 18, 1M0 F A f ' I- 1 r t )' 'A' 1 ' st.' ,'! 1 i'' v ,r '1. j. r TBS ,N- ;P;erauimans Weekly ' PabllSied every Friday by The -Perquimana Weekly, a partner ahip consisting of Joseph G. Campbell and Max R. Campbell, at Hertford. N. C. .MAX CAMPBELL Editor SUBSCRIPTION RATES One Year ' f I-25 Six Months -76 . i ,tK-'tr North Carolina vA DPf S; ASSOCIATION !' o 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 'truest, Cards of tha:.ks, ooituaries, resolutions of respect, etc., will .e charged for at regular adver ting rates. FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 13, 1940 mu: THOUGHT FOR WEEK Caarity never faileth: but whether there-be prophecies, they shall fail; wnether there be tongues, they snail cease: whether there be knowledge, it shall vanish awaj . I Cor. 13:8. We still haven't heard of any di rect progress being made toward t building a gymnasium for Perquim ans County High School. Let's get this idea going. The sooner the start the less time it will take to get it, 1 Plans are rapidly taking shape for the second annual Perquimans Coun ty Fair. Remember the date anj nign tn rtipM At least part of the week visiting the fair, and be sure to take advantage of the merchan- dizing specials that Hertford mer- chants will offer during Fair week. i Our congratulations to Superin tendent Johnson on the smooth open ing of the school term. The reno vated Hertford Grammar School is certainly a nice looking structure. While we still believe that an entire ly new building should have replaced tne old . . . we must admit tne uram mar School has had a fine "going now a over" and its appearance is credit to the town. According to news reports the Hertford; tjotbajl teamv opens its 1940 season two weeks from today. Let's all mark a red circle on the calendar for that day and make it a point to go out and boost for the home team. Win or lose, they de serve the support of the entire com munity. Thoughtfulness There can be no doubt that the Negroes of Elizabeth City, who par ticipated in the rioting scene in thai city on Monday evening could have learned a very good lesson in thoughtfulness from those officer? called to preserve the peace. Tf. ia rAtrrottnhlo that. oiiri thincc happen ... but happen they do, and the manner in which the police, fire-1 men and coast guardsmen conducted! themselves deserves the praise of both the 'White and Colored Races, in this entire section. Without-" question a powder keg , blot on the State of North Carolina.; Had those officers rushed into that : mob, as they might have done had , the same situation occurred e'se-1 where in the South, it would have been a sorry night for the entire city. I It certainly can be hoped that the group of Negroes who fostered the scene Monday can see the light in the lesson of "thoughtfulness that was portrayed by those White Officers in Elizabeth City. SO WHAT? By WHATSO CITI2EN5, YOU ARE JUST VOTERS!. Why should you want to know a good ii Fp; U even 'the Commander-: the'Arnjed Fofef irf-the knows just exactly what 1 which to defy the worldl Very lit tle real and accurate information has trickled even unto the halls of Con gress, much less outside the city of Washington. Furthermore, there ap pears to be but little understanding of th,e, fundamental problem' of re armament even ,by the Squire of Dutches County. Not so very long j ago we were to wake up some morn-; :dn$ and, find that we had 50J)0Q ir f -nlattafl! ,-TU- 'ULi. i. " . i ' w4 uus etuiio ouurcq eema. :to rJ,tb opinion that if by the 'end of the year we-are in a position; to turn out 86,000, planes a yeax .we v will M'doijig right welll The best1 , autbw, 'y we have seen quoted, how. vever, states "that 6fltf lanes day by , "next fall' is' what you ' can expect - Vell, count 865 days to the year and . v t'-tJbr.W nd tee , what : , . f t t-e present tune, according i t tzz-ri to be reliable lafor, Chewing tiK ,'vtnla ill ,'1 9 -n. t '.vnroti' Lucius Blanchard, Jr. STALK W'ttlTE didnt really care who was parked in hiB lane the other night, but he old xnow and is con-j cerned over the fact that snakea usuallv travel m pairs. mere a little sense in tnis so tar, dui juh " - i nl get the drift as we go along.) "PeoDle Dark there at all hours," I Mr. Wnite said, but there's something ! he wishes to warn tnem aooui Those who parked in Stalk W1'8 lane for a necking bee one night last week if they left the car were in ' almost as much danger as Dick Tracy usually is. The following morning Mr. White drove out of his lane and stopped long enough to kill a three and a naif foot diamond back rattler where ,the unidentified car was parked the night before. The snake bad five sets of rattles and a button, the Commissioner-elect said. He added, for the benefit of those who park there, tiiat snakes usually travel in pairs. (There's the connection.) You can be pretty certain for the next several days, at least, the dead rat-tL-'s mate is somewhere in the neighborhood. THE WORM is the lowliest of all creatures. Yet when he turns, things of a revolutionary nature are sup posed to happen. But what actually takes place when the worm turns? If he's on a hook does he bite the fish, or does he climb off the barb, back up the pole, take the fisherman by the scruff of the neck, stick him on the hook, and say "Now, see how you like it, you x! $$xx!! (three or four censored words here). Personally, we'd like to see a worm turn if only for the novelty of the thing. Nothing is ordinarily ' quit so insignificant, so harmless, so unobtrusive, so eager to crawl out of man's notice ae the worm, He is pitifully content never te see the light again, to burrow under a damp board and stay there forever. , You can hardly blame a worm for sometime wanting to turn. Suppose you were a worm, suppose all your; mends were worms (if they are, J"" Vw"u juu uauii i nouceu;. iou yur friends have been under a "'"f uc. vc u7" 7 nnos oi poker and had several drinks, but mation, we have less than 300 first- line planes ind Only. 69 of these are heavy bombers. As of September 4th., less than 1,5Q0 modern fighting planes have been ordered for deliv ery during 1940 and 1941. Of this ' nurauer o;ily 176 are heavy bombers.' However, the most damning state ment that we have found coming from Washington is that te Army High Command is still developing ex perimental planes and "types for mass production have not yet been finally decided upon." If there is really a crisis right around the cor ner, as we are made to believe is the case, then such de'ay as we are wit nessing is criminal. If, however, t'nere is no immediate crisis and the Administration is crying wolf" for political purpose, then such action is f :s6rvin8 f mre contempt than our. Lmited vocaary can express. One img does stlck out though with all Ve obvlousnesB of a sore thumb- rer?.is'a great ,ack of efficiency in Washington or there is an equally great suPei"ab""ance of politics! pV-n,. ERABLE TO WN if If-' T.Ur, Fnanc!aI 1 is worthy of a special salute. For the first time, so far as we have NEW ELECTRIC RATES BY THE TOWN OF HERTFORD This rate is and is effective in-cmet of i untf inecer. lms is.amarraiaana-sumecE0 ie has with I ow ' - ,vvw.JWy'w,w'1 - Minimum ,.$1.00 per month First 20 K. W. at 1 10c Next 100 K. W. at &c Next 50 K. W. at ..r.. Next 50 K. W. at .36, All over at j 2j4c ; u. ' w Stove Rate Remains the Same V'V ' ''iJUMjii assistance wWdiVp-y abletd7 t reftSojour cspdsap -Vvro;sliall be giid' 1 to discuss your electric problems with you.K ( Thtf Ririg 1 without raiaingf ,' disturbtnce about it (we've never heard worm's neighbors complain "about the noise), in fact there is nothing more noise- less than a worm witn : or without drinks they don't even Wccough. So there you are, under your hnnrri nnii bntherinsr tinhrtrfv when a jurfe of fellows decide .they want to go fishing. That's all right with you. It makes no difference to you that they want to go fishing . . . but i w.ien they decide on worms for bait' tuat's where the rub comes. With no compassion, with no con- s;deiation as to your opinions on the matter, and without even the common courtesy to ask "do you mind if we , use you for bait?" they unceremon iously haul you from under the board and dmp you in a can, a can that smells of stale beans at that. Then they stick you on a hook, not even remarking, that "this Is going to hurt you more than it does me." And to add insult . to injury, they blame you that the fish don't bite. We'll take the dog's life every time for ours. Is it any wonder that,1 the worm wants to turn? OUR 03SERVAhiES of last week in this department on the alarming . decrease in Perquimans County's' population has brought no end of, comment. And any number of crackpot theo ries on keeping the population at! home. We have a solution, . too. A very simple one. All we need to keep Perquimans County population in ; Perquimans County is industry. Without industry it just can't be, jnri. Neither is the Mystery of the Missing Population a great problem. A look around you will show that the older people are still here. It's the VOllnCr npfinlo uhn im mlnainn. Thia : year this monthi even this week the; youth is leavi in ter numbenii than ever before ( Perquimans County is in grave' danger of stagnation. ., There's no' need to sav "it ain't nn . Th. faMa I and figures speak for themselves W ww , A AIMiVO without an injection of industry ferquimans County is doomed. In- dustry is the only cure, been hlp ,-Hn. ernment ha seen fit 'to .publicly re I port to the citizens of Hertford' the financial condition of the Town. We appreciate it. Really, you know, the people of Hertford are interested in what is being done with their prop erty and their money But this is the first time in, lo, these many years that the local administration has reported to the citizens. At NOTICE Beginning January 1, 1941, this Bank will close at 2 o'clock every day including Satur days. . We find this change necessary on account of wage and hour leg islation. HERTFORD BANKING CO. availablebtd -residences oify,T reffardlelbtiie'riiimbei)fv time8nnodoubt. Si Mayor woT.tha. FatheWhi bV-4ar4 to repflftet t.ttJhjtbytfte came th;ti when , the Exclusive-; Qub -of Elected did not consider . that ine Dublic was worth rwortmg to. .We are. glad those days are in the past and if the voters have ariy common" sense at iall they wffll never allow auch days to return. t There, are one or two questions and a couple of remarks we would 1 like to indulge in but time and space, forbid.' However, we are ' of ttie opinion that the Town may be proud of the condition shown in the Finan-j cial Report. The fact feat during: the year we have constructed side-' walks, built a public pier for bathers and carried out most praiseworthy improvements in the Public Ceme-V tery, makes it even more apparent that we are not being governed care lessly and our tax money is not be ing handled in a sl pshod manner. WHILE ON THE SUBJECT OF FINANCIAL REPORTS we may re mark that we do not know whether a municipal government is or is not required by law to publish a finan cial report. We do know, however, the "County Fiscal Control Act" of 1927 does require the Counties to putflish an "Annual Budget Esti-' mate." We have never seen one pub lished by Perquimans, County. Many citizeiis would find such a budget of interest. The voters of the County have a right to such information. We wonder why they do not get it Concealment often gives rise to su spicion sometimes justified, some times not! SMALL TOWN BOY MAKES GOOD! We knew you'd do it, "Whitey" White! It reads like a romance a success story raised to; the heights of the impossible! Just' a humble udher in the little old town' theatre was "Whitey" White when , the call came from the big city. He was stepped up to manager of the; great movie house. Just one night i was he a mere manager. The next day he was promoted by the sheer force of circumstances to be Over-, seer of Theatres for the whole city! Some boy, our "Whitey." Hell hit the top if it takes riots to get him ! there. HOSTESS TO BRIDGE CLUB Mrs. Henry Clay Stokes charming- ly entertained her bride club Thurs-f day evening at her home. Those playing were: Mesdames J. 0. Fel-, ton, T. L. Jessup, Charles E. John-1 son, George Barbee, Henry Clay 1 Sullivan, Misses Helen Morgan, Mary Sumner and Elizabeth Knowles. Hiprh serire prize went to, Mrs., Fel. f f i . l You pay money for gasoline. . for gallon, and stretches ou that power You get mileagerom gasoline. The more into extra miles. ' " mileage you get from it, the less it costs. ,v And, in addition hall these hew features, l The more performance you get along with you get the 'tbemifal bonuthat maket this v that mileage, the more you get for your new gasoline distinctly different from any money. , . That's why so many people around here binatioti that works as you drive to reduce Jiave sWitched.br are witching &nzw excess motor carbon. ?k:"s. ' i i sty, aqivcmzeu ryff - gep - ? ; To purge your motor , ment takes only 30 h 1 y x ton, l6w to Mrs.' .Jessup" and" Miss Sumheriteceived,the floating prize. MORET ABOUT. GOD i Continued hrotr. fAtr- Ohp and explained that because liquor is so closely aligned with politics, liquor talk has been taboo in the Church. But Sunday, during' the hour1 dedi cated by President Roosevelt and Governor Hoey to Peace and Prayer, Mr. Munns was striking at the com mercial amusements he said are jeo pardizing the institutions of the American Homt "When the home is broken, the bedrock of civilization is gone," he nnnrn BEFORE you trade for that Better Used Car SEE US. We have all types and models Guaranteed not to let you dow n. Ask About Our Liberal Time Payment Plan 1936 Plymouth 4-door 11936 Chevrolet 4-door DeLuxe Sedan. . Coach. A real buy. 1938 Plymouth 4-door! DeLuxe Sedan, with trunk. S t CI AL FOR THIS WEEK 1933 Chevrolet Master Coupe... $95.00 1941 Plymouth! Now On Display PLYMOUTH IS THE ONE FOR '41 Towe Motor Co. Chrysler SALES AND Puts more in every tank mm 1940 ' - - . . .... u.auu,!51.? of atctst carbon, QUICKLY, get a SolvenizedTune-UpTrtat- minutes . , , costs only SI , , . money Hertford,N. 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