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Tttl Perquimans Weekly Published every Friday by The Perquimans Weekly, a partner hip consisting of Joseph 0. Campbell and Hex R. Campbell, at Hertford, N. C MAX CAMPBELL -Editor SUBSCRIPTION RATES One Year fl.25 Six Months. .75 Entered aa second class matter November 15, 1934, at postoflloe 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, JULY 11, 1941 BIBLE THOUGHT FOR WEEK HE DID: Then the king com manded, and they brought Daniel, and cast him into the den of lions. Now the king spake and said unto Daniel. Thv God whom thou serves cpntinually, He will deliver thee. Daniel 6:16. First Again 4itfQl Perquimans is first again. A short time ago a State-wide drive was con ducted for funds for the United Ser vice Organization and PerquimanB was the first county in the State to report its quota. This week another State-wide drive is being made to raise funds for the purchase of an airplane am bulance to be given to England as a gift from the people of North Caro lina. Charles Whedbee, Perquimans chairman for this drive, has already announced that one and one-half times the quota asked has been rais ed here. To our knowledge Perquimans is first again in raising its quota for a humanitarian undertaking. Good News With National Defense causing higher taxes on a national scale ana increases in the cost of living, good news indeed is that which tells of no increase in Perquimans County's tax rate for the new fiscal year. Al though, none was definitely expected, the Commissioners were not sure un til a preliminary review of the new budget was made this week. At that time it was foreseen that, regardless of some slight increases necessary in the budget, it would not be necessary to levy more than the ratfl-jas of last year. Careful handling of the County's finances made it possible for the budget to absorb these small in creases without additional burden on the taxpayer. Yes, it is good news. Union Pays $110,000 Damages Here's an item of news that you may have overlooked. In May, 1937, workers at the Apex Hosiery Company's plant, in Phila delphia, staged a seven-week sit down strike, during which the ma chinery of the company was dam aged. So what? Well, the company sued the union for damages and the other day the case was settled when attor neys for the union agreed to pay $110,000 to the company. What's more, city officials agreed to pay $15,000 to settle a suit for failure to provide police protection. Income Up Eleven Billions We are somewhat intrigued by the prediction that the national income for 1941 will be about $11,000,000,000 more than the $74,000,000,000 re corded last year. This is interesting, even to a half baked economist, and more than in teresting to the citizens who expect toshare some of the extra dollars that are floating around. The economic experts say that the Ainerioan farmer will receive, upon the basis of the present outlook, a cash farm income of about $10,600, 0Q0,00, or about ten per cent more than in 1940. -Moreover, the 1941 income will have greater buying pow er .than the $11,221,000,000 that the farmers received in 1929. Closing In On Spies Probably many of the thirty-one persons arrested by the Federal Bu reau of Investigation on charges of espionage could have been caught at any time in the last two years. Dur ing that period, according to the F. B.I. head, the government agency has. beenworking to trap not only the subordinates of a "ring' but the higher-ups as well. The fact that even of the group .have already pleaded guilty indicates that the two Tears have been well spent. Meanwhile, no doubt, some infor mation of a semi-useful nature, and aome of. more. importance, has been succej; Jolly titownitted to atieast one Government whoso policy clashes ne Government whose policy clashes' iiiii ROGER. Okectot National Fan You Founoafo BORROWING MONEY Lack of understanding on the part of the general public, with regard to public borrowing, is cre ating a general misconception of economic consequences. The two fac tors of primary consideration are the amount of money to be b o r rowed by the govern ment, and where the money comes from. In nor mal times the volume of loans Kyes is so small that the savings of people interested in buying bonds are sufficient to cover the requirements. Under such conditions government loans have little effect on our economic life. In an emergency such as the present national defense, where billions of dollars are involved, the government will be forced to buy beyond the savings of the people. This will mean that peo ple will have less money to spend. So long as this drain does not remove more than luxuries from our daily life, and does not im pair the capital funds necessary to the economic life of a com munity, no great damage will occur. The great danger to the future of the United States, from an eco- nomic point of view, is that under the strain of the emergency our government may overlook the long range problem of preserving the economic resources of this country. It is possible to divert capital, replacement funds temporarily! but if this continues too long, machinery and equipment will, not, be kept in repair. As a result the machinery will lose its ability to produce wealth, thus putting Ithe future income of the country! Into jeopardy. Only one sound contusion af be drawn, considering the ast sum the government must botrow for this emergency end that is, that it become the patriotic duty of every American to loan tab government every bit of savings and every bit of additional money he pan spare. If any of us bqld 1 out ana refuse to loan our aw ings then, by necessity, the gov ernment, through taxation, will borrow the capital from American business, whether it be the coun try store or the giant manufac turing enterprise. Taxation is advocated by manyi on the theory that it will check ex-1 travagant consumption and avoid! the inflation of credit and prices.! The arguments are good but, un fortunately, the politicians usually avoid effective taxation. They are willing to tax large incomes but this fails to check inflation. Taxa tion of the masses is the only way to check rapid rise in prices. This is politically unpopular be cause most people fail to under stand that taxation of rich and poor, as well as the millions in between, is for the protection of everyone. The masses lose more net income as a result of infla tion than could possibly be taken away from them by taxation twice as heavy as that now being paid. Of equal importance to the amount and source of money for government use, is the question of how the money borrowed is to be spent; that is, whether it is put to productive or unproductive use. To be productive it must either increase or protect the capital as sets of the country, if considered only from an economic point of view. Certainly the protection of our country means the protection of our assets. Defense for the protection of such capital assets should therefore be considered productive. The building of new plants and the buying of new machinery and equipment all come under the bead of productive expenditure. Because such ex penses will be so tremendous, it is necessary that non-essential ex penditures be reduced to a mini mum. The important thing to remem ber in connection with the pres ent nationakemergency is that all of us can do Ourselves and our country a gretf ' fipr,cmwjtf cally by turning our savings into defense bonds. with that of the United States. . For example, several of the accussed are suspected of aiding commerce rata- era and submarines with information on departure of British vessels from American ports. Doubtless many persons acquainted with potential spies wonder at the liberty they are permitted. The hon est American who shares a work bench with a suspicious character, and who reports his suspicions, may be bewildered by the apparent slow ness with which officialdom acts in the case, The delay is not often due to the cleverness ofrthe ftp. .Most spies are faWromTfiever. 8 TyS are slow. wjtted tools of clevt Jtpfople who stay in the backgrouW. Sefce of the most amusing stories in the litera ture of toternatkmal IntrlgtllMre been provided by the amannr stu- WditT of ? aecret aarenta. 'i Property watched, these agents are not likely) i mi. pr ilin ; r V mmhmb -mmm till rli '"IlK ' tfN-TTl W? t (Her 71 fit F ' ' J to do great harm of themselves. They can even be used to deceive the Gov ernment for which they are working; sometimes wittingly, sometimes un wittingly with the aid of false in formation "planted" where they mistake it for the genuine article. Thus, if the F. B. I. roundup pro duces important leaders of foreign espionage activities m the United States, the risks entailed by two years' waiting to pounce on the small fry" will be more than re paid. The move evidently is part of a nation-wide campaign which has included as one of its more import ant tactics the closing of Axis con sulates in the United States. The Christian Science Monitor. Who Knows? 1. When did Napoleon invade Russia? 2. What does the "Ukraine" mean in Russian? 3. What metal burns brilliantly and is used in flashlight powder and tracer bullets? 4. In the organization of rural youth in the 4-H Club, what do the four H's stand for? 5. How many men have been in ducted into the Army under Selec tive Service? 6. What is the code of Hammu rabi ? 7. Who invented the mercury thermometer? 8. What is the OPM and what is its purpose? 9. About how many Americans have been given deferred classifica tion because of "conscientious; ob jections" to war. 10. What is the B-19? THE ANSWERS June 24, 1812. Borderland. Magnesium. - "Head, Heart, Hands, Health." Approximately 600,000. An ancient code of laws, estab 1. 2. 3. 4. 6. 6. lished by King Hammurabi, of Bab ylon, 2,100 B. C. 7. Gabriel Daniel Fahrenheit, a German physicist, in 1714. 8. The "Office of Production Management," set up to turn appro priations into defense armaments w fast as possible. . About 2,000. 10. The Army's 82-ton, $3,500,000 super-bomber. Marines Now Taking Men 17 Years Of Age For the first time in its 166-year history, the U. S. Marine Corps is enlisting young men of 17 years of age for regular duty. Previously young men of that age were enlisted only for duty as buglers or drum mers. : Enlistments are being effected for the duration of the National erner gency in' the Marine Corps Reserve lnen tnjemf rgency no longer ex ists, reservists 'will be' returned home and discharged. The dutv. nav. urlt- fprm, and chances for advancement are identical with those of the wigjir Iar Marine. Over 100 correspondence courses are offered, free, to Marine Corps personnel, and 17 schools are maintained for training personnel, reserve and regular. Ambitious young men may study any subject from rood English to Chemistry. in eluding courses .designed to prepare the individual for Civil Service posi tions. Fo recreation - movies, read ing matter, and all types of sports, with equipment furnished free. ,n Lewis E. Lawes, famous ar warden of SinsHing prison in New York State, 4 wek'j resigned from the position a'M fo the past.M years.XV fc?01 his treatment o "prisoners in wnz probably the fadt hardened crmim&l habitat in America Lawes stated that he plans to j5vot his tfana- to writing and public4 speaking;" w BY ORDER OF THE PERQUIMANS COUNTY BOARD OF COUNTY COMMISSIONERS I will advertise for sale, on August 4th, all Real Estate on which 1940 taxes have not been paid. I will hold the sale of the sameon the first Mon day in September. Please make settlement now and save this additional cost of advertising. J. Emmett Winslow f Tim y- J ' i - tfcOrwrrnWMlMt and daufehtlrA4 f i 6f Suffolk, Va visited his mbWer, Mrs. Maggie ' C. Misses Genevieve, Margaret and Sadie Standin, of Norfolk, Va., spent the week-end with their parents, Ur. and Mrs. R. F, Standin. Mr. and MrsV R. S. Chappell and children visited Mr. and Mrs. Ene Kirby Sunday evening.. Miss Mary Lou Butt, of New Hope, is visiting her grandparents, Mr.' and MnvJ,.,G. ,Hobbg.:jr ... , t u-t t . Cordell Farmer has returned to Roanoke, Va., after a few days' vlsu with his parents, Mr. and Mrs. W. J. Farmer. Mrs. W. P. Long and children, Julian and Evelyn, visited. Mr. and Mrs. Seth W. Long, at New Hope, Sunday afternoon. Mr. and Mrs. Henry Simpson and son, James, of Norfolk, Va., spent the week-end with Mr. and Mrs. W. D. Perry. Miss. Blanche Goodwin has return ed home after visiting with ,relativee and friends in Norfolk, Va. Robert (S. Phillips, of Lexington, spent the week-end with his mother, MrsvS. C. Phillips. Miss Elizabeth Simpson, of Nor folk, Va., is the guest of her aunt, Mrs. W. D. Perry. I Mr. and Mrs. S. M. Long, Mr. and u Sheriff of Perquimans County What is advertising, anyway? A lot has been written about advertising. A lot of speeches have been made about it. Bjtft the whole fact in a nutshell is-liivertising is simply - a time . savel.:::;.'..' V.?1'. ' . It saves time for the man or woman who wants to buy some-thinr-and for .the store or fac tory with something to sell. And like most time-savers, it's a money-saver, too.- -i DdcSft .iin?-iii.AT'Ti f ' Mrs,' Joe Wu'te, linu R. IS. -Chappell, : Mrs. W. P. Long, Mrs. W. D. Perry, -Misses Gertie Chappell, Lucille Ion? , and. Evelyn Long, J. X Bobbs fcld .1. William Hobba attended the funeral, of Mr. J. Byruxnjr ' at . Ballarda t Bridge Church on Tuesday afternoon. i ENTERTAINS BRIDGE CLVb ' Jr.'" Miss Kate Blanchard was a de. lightful hostess on Tuesday evening , :. to the members of her bridge club. " Those playing were Mesdames J. G. Roberson, R. M. Riddkk, T. B. Sum- , ner, B. G. Koonce, V. N. Darden, " Oscar Felton, D. F. Reed and 0. Y. Yarborough, of Louisburg. The high K score prije was awarded Mrs. Reed," ' with second high going to Mrs. Rid' ' 'I, dick. ' :(-'f The hostess served a dainty sweet course. HOSTESS TO BRIDGE CLUB Mrs. E. L. Laughingfaouse enter tained her bridge club Tuesday even-X ing at her home. Those enjoying the' f evening were Mesdames Charles E. Johnson, Charles Williford, Carroll Holmes, George Barbee, H. C. Stokesi and Tommy Jessup, Misses Helen V Morgan and Mary Sumner. Mrs. Holmes received" high score prize, floating prize went to Mrs. Willi ford and Mrs. Jessup was presented the prize for low score. The hostess served a dainty salad course. in) is - 'Sffl if 4
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