North Carolina Newspapers

MARCH IS. 1923 General Assembly Pass es Many Measures of Un usual State Importance Brief Resume of the Laws Enacte by the Legislature Just Closed ? Especially Compiled for the Bus Readers. Many hills of statewide important* were passed by the General Assembl which adjourned at noon Tuesda after an eventful session. Severs of this character and a goodly numbe of local bills failed to pass and wer left to die on hte calendar. The following list of general legif lation passing and failing to pass wa prepared by W. T. Bost one of th newspaper men reporting the pre ceedings of the Assembly: Additional bonds for $15,000,00 continuing highway program and k vying a lax of three cents per gallo on gasoline. Authorized issue of $10,067,500 i bonds for permanent improvement at state charitable and educations institutions. Vote to build a railroad throug northwestern section of North Care lina to Tennessee or Virginia, an also provided for construction of se^ eral branch lines to connect with th main line. Authorized the establishing of a additional training school for boys similar to Jackson Training School t be located in eastern North Carotins Passed the revenue act, with a pre vision exempting foreign stocks fror taxation. Refused to increase th income tax rate. Passed the machinery act whic carries out the revenue act and pre vides for revaluation of real prop erty this year, but the values to b used for the year 1924. The count boards are to have charge and th state wont have anything to do wit the property values. Also provide that taxes are due in October and discount of on< half of one per - en, per month can be levied during th months of February. March an April. The discounts and penaltic apply only by order of the count commissioners. Authorized the governor to appoin a boat commission to investigat fully the question of water transnoi tilt ion in this stall' and report to th governor, who may cali a speck session to consider the report. Passing a bill authorizing a com mission of seven men to study th question of "John Smith" tcnan farmer, and report to the next so* aion of the legislature what plan th state should pursue to help him als to study group settlements. Made the state laws conform t the Volstead act. Passed a law effective July 1, re quiring all automobiles to "stop, loo! and listen" before crossing a railroai track at grade. Applies in cities an* towns also, except where gates am watchmen are provided. Took off the surcharge on Pullmai tickets, but the railroads claim th? law won't stand in light of court de visions. Gave state highway commission ne larged powers in dealing with th? grade crossing abolition, so far a: state highways are concerned. Made it a misdemeanor for a inai to "peep ' into a room occupied bj a Woman. Provided fufc registering title t< automobiles, and enacted provision; H for making: theft of automobiles les attractive. Empowered the r\- poratior. Com mission t oemploy a man or men U handle complaints as . > mov -.r.ent: of less than carload freight. Submitted a constitutio al amendment to limit the amount of bond* the state can issu^, based upon 7 l-ll per cent of the amount of ?ea! and personal property in tthe count esSet up a state sinking fund from the general fund to retire bond issues now outstanding. Enacted the Brooks general educational bill, regarded as one of the outstanding pieces of the session. Placed .-.olicitors on a salary of $4,50u and $750 expense account after October 1, 1924. This makes possible a later redisricting of the state. Required that Supreme Court reports and reprints thereof be pub? listed in full. Enacted a more drastic fire escape law with especial reference to public building*, theaters and buildings over three stories high. Enlarged the definitions in the Blue Sky law so as to make it more effective. Placed Morris plan and other in dust rial banks under supervision of tho corporation commission and allowed them to establish branches. Abolished the criminal insane deH partment of the state penitentiary and provided for treatment of the whites at Raieigh hospital and the negroes at Goldsboro. Gave power companies the right of eminent domain so they can go into court and dispose of the claims of a lesser power site, but not to apMEN W Men Wanted by Elec Shulls Mills, h WAGE $2.0i Find Manager at Robl ^ ply to existing cotton mills. I Gave state institutions the right " of eminent domain in regard to a needed land for expansion. ^ . Passed the "age of consent" bill. Tightened the laws with regard to marriage, especially under 16 years ~ of age. yj Enacted the mothers aid bill, with ian appropriation of $50,000 to bi 'supplemented by the counties par* ticipating. - Submitted to hte voters in the next * general election the question of 1 creating a state loan fund of $2,000r 000 to enable veterans of the world e j war 10 acquire homes and farms. i Submitted a constitutional amendment to increase the limit of raortlS gage exemption of homes from $3000 e, to $8,000 and provide that half the j mortgage and half the value of the I property is exempt from taxation if ! interest rate doesn't exceed five and \ > one-half per cent. n I Placed the State Sanitarium for ! treatment of tuberculosis at Sanan; torium under a seperate board of j trustees. 11 j Increased the board of trustees of ! Agricultural and Engineering College at Raleigh to 50. f* Provided for uniformity of automod bile license taxes throughout the state r~ Continued the participation of the e { state in the fight against tubercular ? cattle, and appropriated $20,000 to n | supplement a like sum from the fed ' oral government. ? Postponed until Ma;, 1 the levying u of tax penalties for the year 1922 on county taxes. n Amended the general hospital act e to provide for 30-year bonds, and giving more powers, A Enacted certain general laws amending present acts and in some l_ j cases enacted new legislation with c regard to counties, cities and town y i Reorganized the fisheries coin mi ? ! ion. increasing number to 11 men " | and guve*$500,000 to open inlets, aid 's.i') oyster culture, and to stock game a in streams. 1 1 Authorized the attorney general to e .... J 4U. r* rr. . %t , III LlIC ? . r. Kira I. V. C1S^ n-cmbc-rmont matter. s, SOME PROFOSED LAWS KILLED V Any regulation of the Ku Klux Klan. Workmen's compensation art. e Regulation of motor vehicles and trucks doing a regular inter- city bus-l e iness or operating regular schedule. l- Refused to require all vehicles to carry a light at night. Refused to require trucks to carry e mirrors to see automobiles approach* ing from rear. ?" Failed to enact new plumbing rege ulations. 0 Regulation and supervision of pool rooms. 0 Statewide game laws. Fixing uniform salaries and fees " in all counties. ^ To prohibit the "harrowing" de^ tails of electrocutions. * To take over and operate the state ^ fair at Raleigh. To provide for medical school to 1 give the complete four vear course. B Refused to exempt county fairs ' from local and county taxation. Would not prohibit banks in this " state operating branch hanks. 3 To establish a department of com3 , merce and industry. j To reorganize the state depart1 monts in accordance with the plan of T State Auditor Durham. (This mat: tor was not carefully considered, but * niov.* will come of it later.) *, Refused t?? enact a garnishee law. 3i Killed an effort. to prevent giving 1 of mo many worthless checks. * Refused to establish any new ' judges or create additional districts " and lvdistr'ct the state. _ Failed to create a State oanking department under a scperate com mi s5 siuner of banking. ' I.eft the Shipman Department of I Labor and Printing intact. j { Killed an effort to allow corpora-: tions to borrow money at more than j '! six per cent by issuing bonds. | j Did not tamper with the divorce , iaws. j Refused to interfere with the pen sion plan for judges, j Failed to enact legislation to per1 mit several contractors to sue the j state on contracts. ffTiT ; xJ%J i GOOD CIGARETTES !Oc ^ GENUINE 2EM "bull" "T^ ffW DURHAM TOBACCO ANTED | trie Construction Co. Hi Jorth Carolina D PER DAY bins Hotel. THE WATAUG TOWERTORlOflD Writer Pays Tribute to Irish Schoolmaster. Has Always Ruled by Love, and Many Men and Women Rise Up to Call Him Blessed. We ofteo wondered that Tbady 8herldan had been able to satisfy the requirements of the board of education for Ireland. But he accomplished . It nevertheless and still retains his position as village schoolmaster. He I had, however, to submit to several indignities. His picturesque, rose-covered but antiquated schoolhouse was pulled down, and a plain, comfortable building erected In Its stead. But far i worse! He was compelled to submit to government Inspection, he who had taught successfully for 30 years. Fortunatetv Mr K*?Ilv lnm?^?nr i. brcadmlnded enough to puss over Thady's Ignorance of modern methods and discipline in consideration of the food results he obtains on the whole. It was rather h shock to him, on coming unexpectedly to the school, to find Thady teaching a class of "Infuuis" with two of the youngest seated on his knees. But his suiprise was till greater when, having produced the usual "Punishment Book' and ex- I plained that every caning administered , to Uie children must be registered, i Thady exclaimed. In genuine astonish- ' merit. "Surely, sir, you don't believe I would ever lay u linger on the children." "<?li, come now, Mr. Sheridan, the boys mii I need it occasionally." Tliady drew himself up to his full height. '"Never! And if ever I found I colliti not make tnein do me bidding without punishment I'd resign at once." So Thady continues to rule entirely and 8UCeo>s fully by affection. "Hip frown Is sullieient correction; his iove Is the law of the school." And the children do idiu credit at examinations. except, it must be admitted, in English composition. Tiiut Is certainly their weak point. ! The Inspector 011 one occasion having carefully explained what "advan- 1 tages" meant, usked the bigger boys to write an essay on "The Advantages of Country Life." and the following I was the best effort that resulted: "There does he man) gcod points In I living In the countr.v. Ye can dig your I own praties and nilik your ovni goat j and eat your own hen's eggs if jour 1 mother ! 1 let you. Ye cgq catch the | farmer's asses that are eating the grans. If so be that the farmer doesn't | catch you. But the best of it all ia jm , can inlch' whenever you like, whllew* them poor gossoons as lives in towns , cau't so much as stay away from school : for cne week without having the 'polls' ( after them. Thanks be, I live in the j country." I In spite of thle, one is glad that j Thady la still the village schoolmaster, for his influence for good Is strong and ; continues long after hi* pupils have left school. In fuet, there are many men and women cow living In "The Big Smoke." as some Irish peasants call Dublin, and others scattered all over the world who testify with gratitude to the loving guidance and training they recel\ed from Thady Sheridan.?Christian Science Monitor. Bird-Banding Association Tcrmsd. In connection with the blrd-baudlng work of the biological survey. United States Department of Agriculture, 1.838 mallards, black ducks end pintails | were trapped nnd banded in Novem otri uuu Liweniocr at me sanganois , dub. Browning. Iil., by a member of [ the bureau. A large number of rej turns from these birds have already I been received. The information fur: nished by the returns regarding the j movements of these migratory birds ! will be of much value to those interested In biru-handing work. [ A new Inland Bird-Banding assoclnI tlon has been formed in the central states, which co-operate with the bio- | logical survey In this work. Particular attention will be given by It to i a study of the birds that follow the Mississippi valley flyway. Potato Row Ten Miles Long. The world's longest potato deld. [ with rows ten miles long, !? believed to be In Union county, Oregon. The 1 owner of the elongated patch leased the right of way from the Oregon- 1 Washington railway and plants bis 1 crop, four rows on each side of the 1 track. It requires a farmer one whole 1 day to make a round trip of cultivating two rows, or 20 miles of plowing. 1 Aside from the money this potato field brings Its owner, the railroad ]>roflt& somewhat in that the greeu vines in midsummer are ' Are pre- Tentative and serve as a fire break I for those started elsewhere. How It Excelled. When the punitive expedition was In Hexlco In 1910 and 1917, one of the newspaper correspondents asked a negro trooper of the Tenth cavalry what he thought of Mexico. The trooper studied a minute and then answered: "Well, boss, there Is more cows and less milk, more rivers and less water, and you can see farther and see less than any country la the world."?Judge. Value of Contrast. "Ton don't tell as many funny stories as you used to." Times have changed* replied Sen- J ator Sorghum. "Everybody ia telling fanny stories. If you want to please an auditor now you're got to bo art- ] ans far a change." ~] A DEMOCRAT Industrial section, the city of Hopewell proper. In 1018 the Du Fonts thought Unit a year would surely see their war plant salvaged. For three years they have been tearing down, hauling away, selling, dynamiting and burning. But parts of the Industrial section still look like a war zone. Materials In many of the shops could not be sold be*-uuse they had been affected by acids. There was nothing to do but dynamite these buildings and tire the ruins. You ride down roads with grassy fields on either side and you see in the tall gruss long rows of chllrred brick and Junk where for three years stood shops costing hundreds of thousands of dollars. One of the few acid houses not yet dynamited stands In a tottering condition as if It bad been staggered by n?< trannquane. turneraoandoned buildings fire In better repulr. A milllondollar power house that cculcJ be run by two men stands just as it was locked up uad left when the guncotton plant closed down. A number of warehouses and shops have been taken over by the new industries. One warehouse la pointed out ns a place where spools for textile mills are being tnade by a young American ace. lie had once worked In a textile plant, and he had learned that dogwood makes the most satisfactory spools for such a plant. When he left the air service he took this warehouse and began shipping In carloads of -dogwood to turn his knowledge into money. Across the way from the aviators plant Is another shop belonging to a business man. This manufacturer has Invented a dishwashing machine and derided to buy his own plant and make It himself. Squatters' Corner Odd Relic. In still another corner of this patchwork city you see u row of tumbledown and deserted wooden shacks on tin .ink ??f the Appomattox river. This is one of the old relics of the war. It was a squatters' corner In the boom days. Workers who could not find cottages were permitted to build their owu shrieks here and pay u mouth ground rent until they could make better arrangements. This land still belongs "to the Eppes family. the original owners of Hopewell. An Kppet* received r. grant of the l?nd from the English king In 1061, an:' came o\er on the good siilp Hopewell to take possession. The Kppes* mansion, on a high point of land where the Appomattox river Joins the Jniues. Is still another distinct side of Hopewell. Here Is a historic Virginia residence, surrounded by Its stately grounds and Qeids, quietly aloof from the ups and dowus of industrial Hopewell. One more feature of the city?the Red Cross?stands out. In most places the Red Cross Is one ef numerous welfara agencies. In Hopewell It la the only welfare agency, and Charles Turner, the Bed Croos man, is the best known character In town. The I Hi Ponts preferred all welfare work to be done by one organisation, and the Red Ooas happened to be selected. The Hopewell Red Cross therefore engaged, and still engages, tu lines of work done by no other chapter In America. Mr. Turner conducts an emergency hospital, an employment agency, a day nursery, a community Christmas tree. Lie collects about 3,000 garments a year for persons In need. lie keeps a loan closet containing an sorts or bicki^HHti niippiirS. Auu he RlV?5 a'u mud relief o? every imaginable kind. FOOLS TWO WIVES FOR YEARS Spouses Live Within Three Blocks of Each Other, but Divorce Suit Reveals Tangle. Baltimore, Md.?While John C. Voelker, thirty-nine years old, according to police had two wives living within two blocks of each other for three years, they did not discover that they had the same husband until wife No. 2 In stituted suit for a divorce. Voelker married both women under false names, it is said, but has lived with neither for almost a year. Voelker married his 9rst wife In Way, 1911, under the alias of Felker, It Is said. She left him the day they were married when he told her that ?he would have to support herself. The first wife's name was Nettie EdeM. Nine years later, police say, he married Harrletta Recside and lived with tier two years. He deserted her almost t year ago. Police found the matrlnoninl tangle when they served dlrorce suit papers. Voelker was arrested and charged with bigamy. Da* DU. Emporia, Kan.?The bite of a rat nonths ago caused the death of Fawnle Smith, aged ten. Makes Wife Entirely Independent of Spouse Marriage that does not deprlre the woman of her iden- : tity or subject her to the "direction or control" of her husband is the mainspring of the "women's hill of rights* which has been presented in the Michigan state senate. The bill provides that a woman may engage In business without her husband's consent, shall have equal guardianship. over their children and shall be ?x: elusive mistress of herself ta \ every affair outside the horn* .reressao I a TWO MILLION ON PUBLICPAYRQLLS Cost of Governing People of United States Is $8,500, 000,000 a Year. WOULD TAKE WORLD'S GOLD i If Distributed Equally the Cost to Every Man and Woman in United States Would Be $220 a Year. * t ! t Did you know that-it costs each * j f man and woman about one day's * * wages a week to pay his or her J , share of the cost of governing t * tne people of this country? t 4* Washington.?'Hie total cost of go. erning th? people of tha United States Is nearly eight and one-half billion dollar* a year, according to a com put* i"'ii iimuc tor me nuugfi, trie inoauiI ly publication of the national budget committee, by William P. Helm, Jr., Its i Washington correspond ant. On the basis of 40,000.000 workers, j whose gross Income Is $60,000,000,000 i a year, this means that the burden of I government on every man and woman In business or professional life, lncludlug the 2.(M0,000 persons who arc I on ! ' public payrolls In natbn. sij?tes, Cities, countries and other inunicipull! ties, would be about $220 annually. If i they should contribute labor lust cad i of dollars, every worker would^give as his >r her share more than seven we**! labor every yea?*. Bwry week every one of us would work approximately one day wrthout pay us o;:r contribution to the cost of preserving life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness under our Intricate and far-flung system of government 2,000.000 Public Servants. Mr. Helm buses his estimates upon such official records as are available for the year 1021. These show the number of public servants in the Unlt. ed Suites to be not less than 2,000,000. In other words we have working for us today in civt! life and in the national defense, full-time employees to tl:e number of all the military forces we sent abroad during the World war. In the list* are more than 50,000 town and city firemen, 8200") policemen, [ 115,000 guards, wutchmen anu doorkeepers, 107.000 common laborers, 12,000 detectives and 10,000 sheriffs, i 50,000 city and county Inanectora of various kinds, 32.000 postmasters, 225,000 sailors, soldiers and marines, 2,300 life savers, nod so on. down to snake doctors and star ftacers. The census of 1020 gives the total number of worker* within the United States as 41,614,248. One out of every twenty la, therefore, on the public payroll. 1? the railroads of the country were to marshal their forces, they would fall j to match the army of oien and women holding remunerative government positions. All the coal mines and all the automobile plums in the country combined fall short of ihe man power of the government. All the hired men on ell the f:irms In i'ue United States hnreiy sine.i in number our public payroll attaches. By the method of Computation used the total cost of American government in ||?l was within hailing distance of eight and or?e-hnif billion dollars. "That sum." says Mr. Helm. "Is beyond human Imagination; no man can via uni'ze i! Eft bnlk or [.-ow^r any more tb*\n ho 'Tin conceive of space. Rut , there are comparisons through which a sense of the magnitude of this sum cftn readily he obtained. Mountain of Gold Needed. "Assume, for instance, that all th'a monoj had to be paid out In gold If we were to ferret out all the gold above ground in the world today the sum would be little more than sulHclent f?>r one year's payments. "The national income of the United States recently has been estimated byleading economists at from sixty to sixty-five billions of dollars annually. The j;v?cimuesii's own investigation date- o far back as tc be of ilttle value it lends some credence to these ??<".mates. Assuming tliat slrty billions i- approximately correct, the cost of the government is about per cent?more than one-eighth?of our nation:;! Income. WW have forty mill ton workers, or thereabouts. If the cost of government v.ere to be equally distributed among Them the burden on every man and woman In business or professional life. Including the two million gov OIUUII-UI "Oifcvkm, ? uuiU PC HIMHJ5 a year. On this basis of five persona to one farally, the coat of government 4a about -5400 per family per year. Or figure It still another '.vay. Oar forty million workers enjoy an estimated gross Income of sixty billion dollars. Of that they contribute about 14 per cent for the maintenance of tlie government. If they should contribute labor Instead of dollars (and they do. of course, pay In labor), every worker would give as his share more then seven weeks' labor every year- Every week every one tit would work approximately one day without pay as onr share of government upkeep and our contribution to the coat of government." Jailed for Spanking Wife. Phflndelphia. Pa.?Robert Gtarat was sentenced to six months In th< county prison for spanking his wife. ? mm P?(e Tbree . ?? i r i | Agtd Bridegroom Likes to "Pick Them Young" A "May and December" wed; diug lust autumn between B. R. Sprayberry, seventy six years : old, of Fort Worth, Tex., and Gladys Marie Lopp. nineteen, went on the rocks. Now Spray: berry, a Civil war veteran, has tried marriage again. This time ; the bride is a fourteen-year-old i girl. Pearl Martin of Fort Worth, I whom Spray berry married three ft days after receiving his divorce gi from his first wife. She desert- 8 ! ed him two days after t..eir uiar- ? I rlage last September. || [ ! TUT, DICTATOR OF FASHIONS Egyptian King, Dead 3,000 Yeara. to Be Followed by the Style Maker# of 1928. New York.?Within the tomb of Kin* Tut-Ankh-Amen are the secrets of what you'll wear this summer The Egyptian Fhataoh, buried more than 8,000 years ago, is to become the supreme dictator of modem fashions. If hit commund is spats, spats you'll don. If: as is more likely, lie orders anklets, ar.kleis it'll be. For designers. Jewelers, and cabinet makers the world over are docking to the museums to adapt the latest Egyptian discoveries into modern dress. Even architects are feeling tiie urge and are studying the pyramids to get skyscraper ideus. J. M. < lidding. fasliiOQ authority, and Pierre C. Curlier, Fifth avenue jeweler, predicted sweeping changes in dully wearing apparel and ornamentation as a result of the excavations on the Nile. Vivid and colorful embroideries based on the actual pigments used ubout 1500 B. C. wi?l be the fed. 'Hie car 11 el inn. laptslazull, and turquoise of the Egyptian jewelry may replace diamonds as the American craze. Clothes In general will be loose, to conform to those woi n by the Pharaohs, it is prophesied. Faience collarettes and decorations of glazed clay will be common, i HUSKY 'HE-MEN" WANT WIVES Women Who Can Sew and Bake,. Hoe and Rake Deal red by Bachelors f i in the North west. Lancaster, Pa.?-"God'* country If ^ , calling for good women/* declares s letter received by Mayor Mussor from , 40 husky he-men from Monsoc, Wash- f , lngtoa. The letter reads: "In the north-west wood, good cooks ! and wives are scarce. We have lota ? of females that can feed one from tin * cans from the grocery, the Duster Brown haircut kind high-heeled* ^ 1 >enuicons, automobile vamps and dancs r hali microbes, but what we want, sir, f are just plain women. "Women who can sew and bake and . In the spring to hoe and rake, and not afraid the garden to make. Those who are pleased with a good team and lumber wagon to go to church on Sunday, und who will be satisfied with three good meals a day and a warm home and no: afraid to call the chickens. Not one that will threaten one with divorce i.-oiirrs when you don't purchase a new hat every spring and w rati." The letter Is signed by R. C. Huggins, who adds the men all are bet WsSei: twenty-five and forty, are strong and healthy and not "runts." The forty lonesome men are developing orchard lund, the value of which is $500 an acre. KING GEORGE TO VISIT ITALY With Queen Mary, Will Be Guest of Rulera and Call on Pope at tho Vatican. Rome?King George and Queen Mary will be the guests of King Victor Emmanuel and Queen Helena at the qutrinal pnlare during their vlsJt to Home in the spring. The British monarch3 alao will pay a IbIi to Pope I'ius. Thej will be reif.Nt-u ui iiie Vatican with royal honors, and Cardinal Gasparrl, the papal secretary of state, will return the call at the residence of the British minister to the holy ace. as the cardinal, because of relations between the church and state, cannot go either to the royal palace c*r to the seat of the British embassy accredited to the king of Italy. During their visit King George and Queen Mary will be assigned to the apartment occupied In former times by Emperor William of Germany and 1'resiaeni itooseveit. " IP" ARRESTS DAUGHTER Charges Her With Being Armed High* way Robber and Automobile Thief. Cambridge, Miss.?-With his voice choked with emotion. Patrolman Timothy E. Murphy made charges of high- j way robbery and motorcar stealing against bis own danghter, Elizabeth, whom he had arrested. The girl had been sought by police for several weeks. The armed girl bandit stole motorcars and cobbed pedestrians time and again, but always escaped clever traps set for her. Finally Officer Murphy was put on the case. He returned te the station with his own child. The girl Is only sixteen years old, har tether said.