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THE PERQUIMANS WEEKLY, HERTFORD, N. G, FRIDAY, MAY 80, 1841
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FRIDAY, MAY 30, 1941
BIBLE THOUGHT FOR WEEK
YOU MUST HEED TOO: Bless
ed is the man that heareth men,
watching daily at my gates. Prov.
Stamp Plan Approval
Without doubt every retailer of
Cotton Products in Perquimans
County will attend the mass meet
ing at the Agricultural Building next
Tuesday when explanations will be
given regarding the Cotton Stamp
Plan program which the government
will shortly put into effect.
Perquimans County merchants
know the importance that cotton
plays in our lives and the need that
exists to stamp out the surplus of
cotton that now packs most of our
warehouses.
The Weekly hopes, and believes,
that every merchant in the county
will give this program a 100 per
cent approval and will cooperate to
the fullest in carrying out the local
end of the program.
Leading The Way
President Roosevelt, in his White
House talk Tuesday night did not
paint a beautiful picture of things to
come. Practically every person,
and we doubt if there were few who
did not listen, sitting by a radio
knew that world conditions right at
the present time are indeed black.
However, the President gave notice
that hence forth the United States
will place every effort to bring about
thedefeat of Hitlerism.
The President's proclamation of a
national emergency, we believe, will
tend to wipe out any division or
thought of division within this coun
try. We believe that he is now
prepared to lead the way for this
nation to follow.
Two of the outstanding points ex
pressed in his speech were, his prom
ise to the twenty countries of the
Americas that American goods will
reach the British. "This country,"
he said, "can and will see to it that
the goods reach England." The sec
ond was his notice to labor and capi
tal that the manufacturing of tools
must not stop.
To our way of thinking this latter
point may mean that from now we
can expect the President, with his
powers under the emergency, to step
in and control the labor unions, as
well as capital, and see that the cost
ly strikes which have been holding
up our Defense Program will come to
an end.
Excellently stated was the News
and Observer opinion that "the
President had spoken with candor.
The American people will follow his
leadership with confidence."
SPRING. HOUSE CLEANING
1
TEXT OF EMERGENCY PROCLAMATION
ISSUED BY PRESIDENT ROOSEVELT
Following is the text of a Presi
dentilal proclamation of an unlimited
national emergency:
Whereas, on September 8, 1939,
because of the outbreak of war in
Europe, a proclamation was issued
declaring a limited national emer
gency and directing measures "for
the purpose of strengthening our na
tional defense within the limits of
peacetime authorizations."
Whereas, a succession of events
makes plain that the objectives of
the Axis belligerents in such war are
not confined to those avowed at its
commencement, but include over
throw throughout the world of exist
ing democratic order, and a world
wide domination of peoples and econ
omies through the destruction of all
resistance on land and sea and in the
air, and
Whereas, indifference on the part
of the United States to the increas
ing menace would be perilous, and
common prudence requires that for
the security of this nation and of
this hemisphere we should pass from
peacetime authorizations of military
strength to such a basis as will en
able us to cope instantly and decisive
ly with any attempt at hostile en
circlement of this hemisphere, or the
establishment of any base for ag
gression against it, as well as to re
pell the threat of predatory incursion
by foreign agents into our territory
and society.
Now, therefore, I Franklin D.
Roosevelt, President of the United
States of America, do proclaim that
an unlimited national emergency con
fronts this country, which requires
that its military, naval, air and civi
lian defenses be put on the basis of
readiness to repel any and all acts
or threats of aggression directed to
ward any part of the Western Hem
isphere. I call on all loyal citizens engaged
in production for defense to give pre
cedence to the needs of the nation
to the end that a system of govern
ment that makes private enterprise
possible may survive.
I call upon our loyal workmen as
well as employers to merge their
lesser differences in the larger effort
to insure survival of the only kind of
government which recognizes the
rights of abor and capital.
I call upon loyal state and local
leaders and officials to cooperate
with the civilian defense agencies of
the United States to assure our in
ternal security against foreign direct
ed subversion and to put every com
munity in order for maximum pro
ductive effort and minimum of .waste
and unnecessary frictions.
I call upon all loyal citizens to
place the nation's needs first in mind
and in action to the end that we may
mobilize and have ready for instant
defensive use all of the physical
powers, all of the normal strength
and all of the material resources of
this nation.
In witness whereof I have here
unto set my hand and caused the seal
of the United States of America to
be affixed.
Done at the City of Washington
this twenty-seventh day of May, in
the year of Our Lord Nineteen
Hundred and Forty-One, and of the
Independence of the United States of
America the One Hundred and Sixty
Fifth. . :
(Seal) FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT.
By The President:
Cordell Hull,
Secretary of State.
Farm Relief Necessary
There has been much wailing in
metropolitan areas over the action of
Congress in providing increased in
come for agriculture through the
mechanism of larger loans on major
crops.
The House vote was 275 to 63 and
the Senate majority overwhelming,
75 to 2.
The intent of the farm legislation
is to establish parity prices which
are those necessary to give the pro'
ducers tne same purchasing power
in terms of other commodities that
they had from 1909 to 1914.
The reader should bear in mind
that the agricultural portion of our
population, hi the years between
1909 and 1914, did not enjoy an in
come equal to that enjoyed by other
economic groups. Moreover, the
plight of agriculture is largely due to
national policies that have destroyed
the export market of the producers,
Whether the plan of the Congress
men is right or wrong, we do not say;
all we assert is that the nation can
not have 'a balanced economic struc
tare unless agriculture gets a larger
share of the national income.
It is highly important that the
people of the South understand the
vital . importance of increasing the
Income . of farm producers. The re
sults .will, not only be reflected In
the wealth of this section but also in
richer, and fuller lives for the growl
ing generation
No Zamzam War
If the American people become ac
tive belligerents in the present war
it will be because they have calmly
decided their ideals and interests are
fundamentally threatened, not be
cause they have suddenly lost their
tempers. The Zamzam incident illus
trates again the disposition of the
American people to keep emotions
under control. So far, less anger
has been displayed over this injury
and affront than over cruelties prac
ticed by the Nazis on other peoples
such as the Czechs, Poles and Jews.
This case appeared to hold the
materials for an explosion of popular
wrath. The catchy name of the ship,
the large number of Americans in
volved, their innocent status as
nurses and missionaries, the ships
neutral flag, and the fact that the
sinking occurred well outside any
combat zone all seemed to make
easy the work of those who might
wish to build a fire with inflamma
tory phrases. But there was little
disposition to excite or be excited,
even before it was announced that
the passengers were taken off and
landed in "German-occupied terri
tory." It appears unlikely now that
American emotions will flare unless
the Germans blunder further.
For despite the public slowness to
anger, the Nazis may find that they
have by this sinking helped to bring
home to Americans the kind of
world they live in and the kind of
world anarchy that will persist so
long as Naziism is rampant. If the
sinking was calculated to frighten
America away from the Red Sea
route it was a serious geographical
and psychological error, and may
easily produce convoys.
For it was so fax from the Red
Sea, or any recognized war zone, so
close to the Western Hemisphere as
to make Americans feel that efforts
to avoid trouble by staying out of
combat areas only bring1 the combat
closer home and Would cage' Ameri
cans within their own borders. Ber
lin is claiming" Chat the vhip carried
contrabanuV.utNwrf?4egaisrnj were
long ago rendered worthless by their
utter disregard of law, International
or moral. Their action here was
plain piracy and apparently occurred
outside of any of the "war zones"
they have tried to legalize.
This newspaper supported the
legislation providing that American
ships were to be kept out of war
zones. We did so even while warn
ing that- the surest way to keep
America out of war was to keep war
out of the world. We failed to re
cognize how important was the po
lice role of British naval powar. We
warned against trying to be neutral
between aggressor and victim. We
should have shouted. Day by day
the news is still teaching the folly of
appeasement in the face of violence
and injustice.
We are glad the American people
are not losing their tempers over the
Zamzam; we hope they will awake to
the fundamental struggle and to.
their inescapable .responsibilities.
Christian Science Monitor.
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Schedule for June VI t
Tuesday, June 8 Tour to Norfolk.
Wednesday, June 4 Winf all Club
meets with Mrs. Joel HollowelL
Thursday, June 5 Chapanoke Club
meets with Mrs. A. R. Cooke.
Friday, June 6 Home and Garden
Club meets with Mrs. H. C. Hoffler.
BALLAHACK NEWS
Mr. and Mrs. Norman Smith and
son, of Newport News, Va., spent
the week-end with Mr. and Mrs. John
Rogerson.
Mr. and Mrs. Clyde Bunch and son,
Elbert, of Rocky Hock; Mrs. W. W.
Copeland, Mr. and Mrs. Sidney Good
win and children, Ruth E. and Janice,
visited Mrs. M. C. Hough, at Colum
bia, Sunday afternoon.
Mrs. C. C. Mansfield, Mrs. Samuel
Mansfield, Mrs. Fred Evans and
Mrs. Elmer Roberson visited .Mrs. C
S. Layden and Miss Mary " Layden
Wednesday afternoon.
Mrs. L. A. Goodwin visited Mrs,
Carrie Miller, in Hertford, Thursday
afternoon.
Mrs. Moral Byrum and baby have
returned from Lake View Hospital,
Suffolk, Va.
Johnny Goodwin, Jr., of Shawboro,
is visiting his grandparents, Mr. and
Mrs. L. A. Goodwin.
Mr. and Mrs. Elmer Roberson, Mr.
and Mrs. Wallace Goodwin and their
daughter, Lillian, visited Mr. and
Mrs. Moral Byrum 'Sunday evening.
Mrs. Sidney Goodwin and children
visited Mrs. Beecher Stallings Friday
afternoon.
Miss Mary Elliott visited Miss
Marie Goodwin iSunday afternoon.
Mrs. Freeland Elliott, Mrs. Murray
Elliott, Mrs. H. V. Baker, Misses
Marie Goodwin and . Mary Elliott
were in Suffolk, Va., Friday after
noon. Jim Baker, of Norfolk, Va., spent
the week-end with his parents, Mr. I
and Mrs. H. V. Baker.
Mr. and Mrs. Troy Elliott, their
daughter, Alice Gray, and Alphonsa
Elliott were guests of Mr. and Mrs.
Anthony" Elliott Sunday.
Mrs. Wallace Goodwin and daugh
ter, Iillian, visited .Mr. and , lira.
N. B. Dail, at Tyner, Sunday affcer
noorC " jiV ,x. , " v -
s'"Mt. and Mrs. L." A. Goodwin and
Wallace Goodwin visited Mrs. -Roxie
Nttxon in Rocky Hock Sunday afternoon-.
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Mr. and Mrs. Levi Goodwin, Jr.,
have moved to Norfolk, Va.
. Mrs. Shelton Nixon and children,
Mrs. Maggie Nixon and daughter
and Bernice Williams, of near Evans
Church, visited Mrs.' Sidney Goodwin
Tuesday afternoon.
Governor Broughton Bought ways
and means this week to bring under
control the worst forest fires this
(State has seen in 15 years. A con
ference was held in the Governor's
office of Foresters and forestry com
mittee of the Board of Conservation
to work the control. :
A New Zealand v report atated ' on ; ,
Thursday .that Max; Schmeling, form-,
er heavyweight boxing champion, ,
had been killed in t3 Battle of
Crete. SchmeIing.was: one of the
Nazi parachutists. The report stated
he was killed while Attempting to
escape British soldiers taking him to
a prison camp.
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4-H Leaders' School
Miss Mamie Whisnant, assistant
specialist in -home management and
house furnishings, held a Room In
provement Leaders school last week
Representatives from each club were
present. VShe gave a demonstration
in the morning on storage in the bed
room. In the afternoon a demonstra
tion on the bath unit in the bed
room was given.
Perquimans County Health Day
June 14th has been selected , as
Perquimans County Health Day. At
this time we will crown our 4-H
Senior and Junior Kings and Queens
of Health. The exercises will be held
at 8:80 o'clock. The public is cor
dially invited . to attend. We are
anxious that our 4-H club members
are represented 100 percent.
,a Tour
. At our Federation meeting Tues
day, June ,8. , was, selected as the date
for our! tour to Norfolk: Gardens,
We plan to leave the Agricultural
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