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Thursday, September 13, 2018

Get Busy But Skip That Sunday Joy Ride, Says Editor, 1918

From the editorial page of the Hertford County Herald, Sept. 13, 1918, J. Roy Parker, editor, and J. Mayon Parker, manager.

The time has now come when idleness on the part of the tender fair sex is regarded as gross unpatriotism, and many towns and cities are enforcing work orders upon the pleasure seeking class belonging to the feminine sex. There is no excuse for idleness on the part of women and the overwhelming majority of them have long ago busied themselves in war work.

If there is nothing for you to do here, the government offices can use you. Women are in great demand in the navy, and also in clerical positions at Washington and in army centers.
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Automobilists disobeying the ruling of the government in respect to the conservation of gasoline were few in Ahoskie and section this past Sunday. Whether it was due to the weather or the desire to conserve gasoline will be revealed on the following Sundays, when the sunshine and good roads invite the Sunday joy riders. However, even though the pleasure rider may not have the patriotic desire to follow the request of the government authorities, non-observers of it will mean a mandate which must be obeyed. The only way in which you can show real patriotism is to curtail altogether the Sunday joy ride.
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With the resumption of our regular service, we are very anxious to secure correspondents from all towns in this and adjoining counties who will send the news of their towns and communities regularly. The mission of this paper is to give the news of this county and section, and to do this requires the services of correspondents from every town, hamlet and community.

It shall be our endeavor to give you a newsy paper, and the local news of this town and section will be greatly augmented beginning with this issue of the Herald. Now is the very choicest time to keep the other sections of the county informed about war activities that are being done in your community or town, and the columns of this paper are all the time open. Get in touch with the paper at once, and let us have the news from your particular section and of the town in which you live.

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