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PAG26 FOUJT
iiimans Weekly
Published every Friday by The
Perquimans Weekly, - a partner
ship . consisting of Joseph G.
Campbell and Max R. Campbell,
- at Hertford, N. C.
MAX CAMPBELL Editor
SUBSCRIPTION RATES
One Year l-25
Six Months "5
Entered as second class matter
November 15, 1934, at postoffice
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, SEPTEMBER 20, 1940
Anent The Draft
Very shortly, we expect, there will
be a complete and detailed announce
ment for carrying out the new draft
law as it will affect those coming
under its terms here in Perquimans
County.
At this time preliminary arrange
ments are' being made that will event-
Ualiy, Deiore icjmmvu j
ber 16, select a permanent draft
board for this County. As we now
understand the law, all male resi
dents of this county who have reach-,
ed their 21st birthday and have not
yet reached their 36th birthday, must
appear at the Court House on that
day to register with the proper offi
cials. At that time fuller instruc
tions will be given registrants as to
the carrying out of their duty tfs re
quired by law.
Next Week The Fair
Perquimans County's second an
nual fair opens Monday night at 7
o'clock. The Hertford Lions Club
has, with the assistance of business
men and Miss Frances Man ess and
Lottia-W,; Anderson, worked hard to
ward bringing a fair, again, to this
county that will do credit to Per
quimans.' ,
It is the hope of the Lions Club
that evry person in the Albemarle
section wilt be able to attend and en
joy a.pleasijUit visit here in Hertford.
Plans have "been made for the enter
tainment of all and the committee
in charge of the fair has forecast a
week of real clean fun for every
body; Parades, speakers, exhiDits, bands
. . . everything that goes in the mak
ing of a fair has been arranged for
Let's all give the fair our support
and boost Perquimans County.
Let's Not Play Ostrich
The Perquimans Weekly realizes
that the Courts must, and do at
times, place a protective shield over
the public. We understand that it
is the Courts' right, privilege and
duty to rebuke officers who over-step
their bounds in carrying out the law.
But we must take exception to an
opinion of our own Recorder's Court
as expressed here in a bootlegging
trial on Tuesday.
There can be no question but what
very person residing in Hertford
and most of Perquimans County
knows the conditions as they exist in
the section of Hertford known as
Goose Hollow. The Weekly has seen
evidence of the condition every Tues
day in the Recorder's Court
cases of drunk and disorderly, boot
legging, fighting, shooting and knif
ing. Such, was one of the cases Tuesday
-oootiegging case, where the 6f-
'X'Horth Carolina
ficer had used a stool pigeon method I ls only fair nd equitable that busi
for the catching of the law breakers ne8S industry make a reasonable
conviction was obtained, where-
upon it was the opinion of the Court
that, while guilty, it did not think it
was exactly a fair way to capture
them. -
Now. 'itis The Weekly's onininn
that there is nothing fair in it either.
hit V,il' !. V!-
t hftthingf fair in thjrTTja thhV most
lawlessness is carried on.
- "WaffJnowTFaFlaws' are made
although goodhess' knows, there are
too many of them to be enforced
regardless of the legal method an
officer uses K . . so let's not play os
trich and, hide our heads from condi
tions as they .exist. If it is, illegal
to sell liquor in this county ... . . and
the Jaw says so . .. then, why not
break it utf by the machinery of the
t law regardless (pf .the methods that
we onicer use to catch the boot-
legger, without creatinir in the mlnda
of-the courtroom onlookers that the
court is not exactly in sympathy with
me mewqai of the lawv ,
; Waf profits Arid
i cnr.er vjir ,
-teerle of the r ' felted States
iJ.i jnot lose sight of th immense
r: Pat some nuslness interests
r--ke out of the national
that there are W buil-
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way that bootlegging is carried on llie vernment'aT .p
either . . . for that matter, thom i that the Bethlehem Sh
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Chewing The Rag
With Lucius Blanchard, Jr.
The job we'd like to have isn't
that of reading water meters. We'd
rather be the fellow who goes around
with him and takes off the meter
covers so the other man can read
them.
We didn't know there was such a
job until we learned one day last
week that the man had removed the
covers one day early. When the
Town of Hertford can provide such
piddling employment as this there
seems little excuse for continuing the
WPA. Now does there?
And a job we wouldn't like is that
of serving in any capacity on the
draft board. Somebody will have to
do it, of course, and to our way of
thinking a year's military training is
much more desirable than having
some drafted son's mother look at us
with the accusing eye that says
"You had something to do with it.
I don't know exactly what, but I'd
; rather have my boy at home."
But don't feel too bau about it,
boys. There isn't one of those fel
lows too old to be drafted who would
n't give his upper plate to be young
enough to be drafted.
And speaking of feeling bad; gloom
hovers over Elizabeth City tonight
like smoke over Pittsburgh. The big
green blotter on Editor Herbert
Peele's desk is soaked with tears.
Everybody in the city hall is nursing
Mayor Flora through a devastating
seige of melancholia.
The Chamber of Commerce and the
city council are holding a consolation
party. They're serving sour grapes.
And well they might, for here's the
"reason: Wednesday afternoon the
ness leaders who insist that they are
patriotic and ready to serve their
country. Most of them are patriotic
but they will charge the nation full
price for any services rendered.
The experience of this country in
the last war aptly demonstrates the
truth of this assertion.
While we are not convinced that
it is to the national interest at this
time to commandeer industrial plants
lor national defense, we are thor
oughly in favor of stringent legisla
tion to regulate the profits of war
industries. If men are to be drafted
for a year's service in the Armv. it
contribution to national defense,
which includes the protection of their
interests.
In this connection, it is interesting
to note that the Justice Department
has asked the Supreme Court to re
view twoWorld War decisions irivolv-
gcontt-aetst
titwa, , chhrges
ipbuildina Corr,
iwmon , naaav 0fttfect. ; to receive
the cost of constructing vessels.' plus
a fixed profit Tf about ten "per 'cent.,
with a "bonus for savings" equal to
one-half of the amount by which ac
tual cost was less than, estimated
cost.
It is charged that the shipbuilding
company submitted inflated estimates
oi costs with the result that it
would receive over 125,000,000 pro
fits for doing work which cost about
$93,000,000 without running any risk
of loss.
'- The United States brought suit to
recover ; excess profits jaid to the
Company in Pennsylvania. The Fed
eral judge ruled that the Government
dd ho i)woTr the profits already
pawMHP u eE.;eaKia transaction a
rWJtKrohbj8jarviKl said that the
cordpirfy'Ptthtiuct reminded him .of
Rob Sot "who admitted he was a
robber butsprbud!l'pclaimed' that
he was no thief." '
'. The Government 'has' asked'. the
Supreme Court f to review -the case
becnusff It is now engaged in a pro -
rrtjE PERQUIMANS WEEKLY, HERTFORD,
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news came through that Penn Cen
tral Airlines had been granted per
mission to operate an East-West line
from Norfolk, Va., to Nashville,
Tennessee.
It was Editor Peele's idea in the
first Dlace. He enlisted the aid of
every newspaperman from Moyock
to Murphy in North Carolina, from
Northwest to Norfolk in Virginia,
and from Hill Billy to Nashville in
Tennessee.
Mr. Peele did a thorough job, too.
He devoted a great deal of time and
effort to the proposition And had the
full support of every Chamber of
Commerce in towns designated as
proposed stops. The Civil Aeronau
tics authority turned a cold shoulder
to the whole thing at first, but Edi
tor Peele and his cohorts didn't take
"No" for an answer. They kept
plugging away "until the aeronautics
board reversed its decision, and au
thorized the line. . .
It sounds like the perfect ending.
But here's the irony of the thing'
and the reason Editor Peele and' May.
or Flora and the Chamber of Com
merce are sobbing in their soup; Eli
zabeth Citj the town in which the
idea had its birth and weaning, is
omitted as a stop on the new line.
Efforts to seek the inclusion of
Elizabeth City in the new line arc
not being abandoned, however, and
for our part, this department hopes
the efforts will be eventually crown
ed with success. An Elizabeth City'
stop would speed up the mails from
Hertford as well as from Elizabeth
City, and efforts as sincere as Editor
Peefle's deserve a reward.
But it does seem rather Iige buy
I insr a new rnnf and hnvino- it nut nn
your neighbor's house.
gram of military and naval arma
ment comparable to or greater than
that undertaken in 1917 and 1918"
and that it is "of immediate national
concern that there should be an au
thoritative determination of the ex
tent to which the country's need
should place it at the mercy of its
contractors."
Obviously, it is of vital importance
to the Government to secure prompt
adjudication of the questions raised
in order to be able to adequately
protect itself in the framing of con
tracts connected with the present de
fense emergency. Christian Science
Monitor. ,
MORE ABOUT
DRAFT
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h,,o(?ontinu.tl,r?e. fflne)
Wihictaom gain; nothing in. .the-vwy of
avoiding training by .reaching,. Such
age. Those who reach their fist
birthday-after October 16th will 'not
be required to register .until, a new
registration date has been proclaim
ed probably a year or six months
after the first registration. , ;r
You .can register at home :" or at
any precinct in which you may hap
pen to be on October 16th, but you'd
bettor register somewhere. iifc.wv
Most of those who sign , registra
tion cards however, will never look
down a rifle's sights or hear . the
command "squads left." There's an
absolute limit of 900,000 on the num.
ber of draftees in training at any
one time. ,
i And many -of the others, the Pres
ident said as lie signed the bill, with
I tai matih nm. "maV serwa their
country beetbby. holding their pr 's
on the pnduttion line." And o' rs
will stayimt heme because of iiJf i
ento tod';ithoil4ands,will he red
forfaUure-se meet physical, require
ments. ; ,.y tftty' ':
The draft board seats era.ne poJi
1 tical - plums. Governor 1 Hey isn't
M CL; JFRIPAY; t SEPTEMBER 20,
sure yet whether the members 'wUK
b, paid or noH Tha i present law
makes no nrovfsion for their ear, buta
it seems rightto the Governor tlhatj
there ghoul4 b some pay.; "Some'
persons" he said, "might tnot be
able to sit for days without pay as
draft board members."
' On the streets here Monday night
after it was learned that the Presi
dent had signed, the bill , with two
scratchy pens, there was no little
speculation as- to whom Mr. Hollo
well, Mr. Johnson and Mr, Pitt would
recommend.
None of the three named have
heard from the Governor or General
Metts and so have given the matter
no consideration until they receive
instructions.
Jean White To Open
Public Stenographic
Service This Week
A brand new business is being
introduced to Hertford this week as
Jean White, daughter of Mr. and
Mrs. I. A. White of Church Street,
opens a public stenographic service
in offices above the store of Darden
Brothers.
For the present, and until the de
mand warrants an assistant, Miss
White will do the stenographic work
herself. Her office is located next
door to the law offices of J.'S. Mc
Nider. She hopes to be able to ren
der the service to law firms and
other professional businesses that do
not require the services of a full
time stenographer.
Available for work on location or
in her own office, Miss White is an
accomplished typist, having studied
in secretarial work.
More Help Offered
To Flood Families
Increased aid to low-income farm
families hard-hit by recent floods
has been announced by Miss Ruth
Current, director of home demon
stration work for the State College
Extension Service.
The mattress-making program
which formerly limited families with
an income of less than $400 last year
to one free mattress has been broad
ened to allow one mattress to each
two members of a family in 17
flooded counties.
The counties are: Ashe, Avery,
Bertie, Caldwell, Halifax, Haywood,
Jackson, McDowell, Martin, North
ampton, Polk, Rutherford, Swain,
Watauga', Wilkes, Yadkin, and Yan
cey, jfive other counties were af
fected by -floods, but will
ered by the new provision either be-
cause their damage was slight or be
cause the mattress program is not in
effect there.
Many families have been left al
most destitute in the wake of these
floods, Miss "Current said. House
hold furnishings as well as crops,
livestock, and feed on hand were
swept away or ruined by the water.
By supplying the affected low-income
families with free mattresses.
?nd. giving them other possible aid,
it is nopea tney will recover from
the floods' ravages much sooner, the
State College home demonstration
leader said.
Miss Current also reported that the
mattress-making program fbr the
State as a whole is now turning out
more than 1,000 finished mattresses
a week. Families who are to receive
these mattresses assist in the mak
ing, supervised by home agents of
the Extension Service or trained
voluntary leaders.
Mr. and Mrs. Henry Winslow and
son, Leland, visited Mrs. Tomtnv
White, at Joppa, Sunday afternoon.;
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Aiteade. Jiool In' Re-upholstering
IFurhiture was conducted at , the
Agricultural- Building last Thursday
afternoon by Miss Mamie Whisnan,
extension" service specialist .from Bar
leigh. who repaired one piece of ;lurr
niture completely that afternoon for
the dub leaders to see.
All 12 home ' demonstration olubs
of the county federation- were repre
sented by leaders, and those who at
tended the school will give demon
strations in re-upholstering to their
individual clubs during the month of
October, Miss Frances Maness, Per
quimans County Home Demonstration
Agent, said.
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82-year-old retired ' merchant'' from .
California, walking around the.' sta
tion in a dazed condition, carrying
ah old paper hatbox, .filled to the '
brim with bonds, cashier checks and U.
cash, they took him into protective
custody, The hatbof was found to
have contained 95,889.50.
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London. A 15-year-old boy has
been captured on a German bomber
shot down, on the southeast coast.
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