North Carolina Newspapers

Established in 1888. i VOLUME XXXIV FORD INTERESTED IN NORTH I CAROLINA ROADS Raleigh Dispatch.?Senator J. R. Baggett. of Harnett county, came to Raleigh with a story of Hnery Ford's interest in a railroad running through North Carolina to the sea and connecting with coal mines he has acquired in Kentucky. Ford wants a means of conveying coal to th ecoast for supplying steamers and he recently offered ninety million dollars for the Virginian railway, the Harnett senator reported, expressing certainty that he had received a piece of news that came straight from the automobile manufacturer. Mr. Baggett is interested in a railroad project himself, and it was through the enterprise that he heard of Ford's interest. His road is the proposed Carolina Central, route to run from l.illii.ptnn tn .Ta<-L"cn?ivill?i and Swansboro on the coast; and he announced maturing plans for actual construction work. Common stock to the amount of $680,000 has already been, subscribed for his project, chartered by the general assembly in 10} 1. and twice that amount will run it through the 110 miles of level country between Lillington and the coast. Surveyors are at work now, and next April is set as the likely time for putting the construction forces to work. The Harnet man was up here to report his news to Governor Morri. son ar.d inquired as to the advisa' bilitv of getting the state ship and water transportation commission to look into harbor possibilities around Jacksonville.and Swansboro. Swansconsidered tin* greatest coaling station in the world. Ford, according to Mr. Raggett, could be brought down here to consider the possibilities of getting a railroad through this state. Raggett sees wonderful potentialities 111 connection with Tam Bowie's railroad, the line running from High T i;nt to Aberdeen* and hip. now projected railway starting 3d miles east of Aberdeen aiffi nitfntt Xo the former site of the World's gr&rtes* coaling .station. Ford, h pointed out. has a road rnnninff cr?i?tK t>*Am r<?< - ? *U.. direction of his Kentucky coal mines. And a road from the mines through North Carolina to the coast would give the financier some several hundred miles of rails forming a half moon. The deal for the purchase of the Virginian was declined by Mr. Baggett to he depended upon terminal facilities at Norfolk. Vs? WHAT GERMANY HAS f*lD A brief item in the daily newspapers a few days ago, under a rserlin date line, stated that the tola! rope, ration payments made by G . many aggregated $2$,000,000,000. The statement was suprising and do . less many people who read it thought that Germany had done remuiu.J iy well to pay thai much doney in 1*01:1: years; and the natural feeling was chat if Germany had paid twenty billions already there was 110 good rca son for oressim* that cmintrv Rut the statement was German made and intended to deceive . In The New York Times Charles H. Grasty {fives authoritative figures of the payments actually made by Germany on reparations account, and shows that the total is about three billion eight hun* dred millions, and of this sum only ^ about one billion cash and deliveries in kind. The remainder (that is, the remainder of the three billion eight hundred millions), whiyn cannot properly bo considered as reparations, includes restitutions?property taken by German armies and since returned, and sequested property abroad, including German holdings in this country, most of which will eventually be returned. It is absurd of course t ocount as a part of the reparations payment the return of stolen property and scquestred property in allied countries, unless the latter was actually accepted and credited on reparation account; and most of the sequestered German property in this country, at least, will be restored to Germany. In reality men, instead ox paying twenty Diiiion on reparation account, Germany has actually paid not quite one and a quarter billion dollars. Germ a..y has not abandoned the common practice of attempting deception and fraud. The misleading and false statement from Berlin is evidence, if any were needed, that Germany intends, if pos, sible, to evade the reparations payments promised. Wherefore there is more sympathy for France and less concern as to what that country may do to Germany?Landmark. 'M V Non-Parlisan Family Newspaper. D BOONE. MORRISON NAMES GARDENING WEEK Raleigh, April 24.?Governor Cameron Morrison today designated April 22-28 as North Carolina gardening week in connection with the program for the gardening campaign. "North Carolina should take the lead as a state of beautiful and distinctive highways, cities and homes, because of richness in its own varieties, shrubs, vines and flowers,'* C. I). Mathews, chief of the division of horticulture, of the extension service, said. "Each town should adopt some tree shrub or flower particularly adopted to its locality .and a determined and united effort to encourage its planting and use should be made. The planting of uniform variety of trees 4-Vw. :? r one pood variety of flower in an extensive'manner is possibly the best advertising a town can have. "Why not make North Carolina distinctive as the land of the LoMiLeaf Pine by planting this tree along our highways? The lobholly and yellow pines might be used where m long leaf v. riety will not grow. "The vegetable gardens should be a continuous one. Wtih careful planting fresh vegetables may be *rved direct from the garden each day of the year. The spring garden will consist largely of the salad ana ' out crops; the summer garden is made up largely of vegetable fruits and the edible seeds; the fail garden of roots, salads and vegetable fruits, and the winter garden will be composed largely of root and salad crops, he said. 3 MONTHS AND NO FATALITY IN AIR Rantoul, 111., April 24.?Not a fatality has been checked against the air service during the three months that have elapsed tsiv Major Generel Masco M Patrii chief of tiut United State*- A if he vic.?iA?ued orders to Uiv officers of Chante. fcoling, Langt y, Michel), McCoul. and SeLri<L* Fields to innaugurate regular scheduled flights over a model airway over the eastern and middle western states, according to records here. The model air course takes in New York, Hampton, Va., Cleveland, Toledo, Detroit, Kokomo. Ind.. and Rantoul. Each field dispatches a plane hi-weekly. The records show that the first flights were not all completed on schedule time, hut each t.?ip ha* shown an improvement. A trip recently completed was from Chanute Field to Dayton, ()., to Columbus, O.. hack to Dayton, O., to Mounds?ille. \Y. Va., to Washington to Cumberland, Mr., to New York, hack to V, a shin g'ton, to Chanute Field. The distance Moundsville, to Cleveland, to Detroit to Toledo, back to Detroit to Kokomo, Ind., and return to cover was more than 2,200 miles and the total actual flying time was 22 hours and ten minutes. While no avaitor was killed, yet the flights were far from devoid of excitement and hair-breadth escapesMajor F. L. Martin in a recent trip left Chauute on a roui.' which covered 1800 miles. He was not furnished with strip maps covering the entire route, but only for territory a few miles on each side of the route. 1 ne only landing place between Zanesville, Ohio and Washington is Moundsville, the remaining landscape being almost continuously utile, Major Martin tried a more direct route than that outlined and almost immediately ran into a strong j head-wind and dense clouds. He was I blown off his course while flying over the mountains. After some time of aimless flying, trying to ! obtain his bearings, he st ldenly realized his gas was getting low his oil was almost gone, and that he had no place to land. He was rathei Kiffh at thp t imn onH 'IrAnnn.) A n\t" to try for a landing. Just before his gas gave out he saw a town and recognized it as Moundsville, his origi nal objective. On landing safely h< found he had only three gallons ol gasoline left, and had no oil. Lieutenant Floyd A. Lundel started the only flight in the thret months that was not carried to i successful conclusion, but felloe aviators look upon him as having i charmed life. His first mishap 01 his route from Chanute to New Yorl was when a spark plug went wronj and he was forced down near Wheel ing, W. Ya. He repaired the damag< an took off again only to find den? clouds confronting him. When h< had climbed above them he learnei xhtu$ evotcd to the Best interests of Boo WATAUGA COUNTY. NORTH CAR( THE CAMP GROUND CLEARED The men of the Boone Chamber of Commerce spent Monday working on a forest in the town cleaning it off ; to be used as a camping ground for summer tourists who may want to come for a camping trip to this live little town. The place is very suit- r able for the purpose and it is hoped . that these who desire to take a camp- j in? trip for the summer will avail J themse'ves of tnis cpnortunity to ?*njoy a pleasant stay. It is the pur| f.<:se of Boone to mak- mis a place { of iv.al pleasure to those who may !* .?>?? to use it. Boone sa> ->* "Come j and Welcome!" At the noon hour a most sumptuous dinner was spread by the ladies of the Parent-Teachers' Association, wheih, it goes without saying, was very much enjoyed by all who parI' took thereof. After the meal was served, the ladies to show their interest in the work being done, spent \ some little time in piling brush and doing other work on the grounds, j i'hey have the thanks of all for the! ? j hearty cooperation. I. M. DOWN*I'M. ' BED RIDDEN, FAMILY OF NINE FACES HUNGER IN YADKIN By L. J. Hampton Ilamptonvilie, April lit).? It isn't I often that a plea for material help to ( sustain life in the body has been sent i out of Yadkin county, but a pitiable | case of a family, sick and afflicted, without even meat or bread in the home for the next meal, was yesterday c^alled to the attention of Sheriff t . E. Moxlev \vhn is Innriimr n paign to cop the wolf from the door until health is restored. The can- was reported by Mail carrier J. \V. Garner. For many weeks Mr. and Mrs. John Southern an dthier family of seven children, the oldest on?* 12 year? old a ' the youngest an infant ip arms, have been batti ng agamst the ravages of * mexctfos vspidoiuiu. The lather and all the children were afflicted, two or more of them being bedridden at a time. All but the mother suffered from the contagious disease and the father is just now able t>> walk a little with, it is feared, sympt.olfts of even a more terrible malady. t Last week Mr. Garner furnished them meat and other foods from hi store without charge. It was the firs; meat they had had in their home for several weeks. But t his supply is e\ hauseted and an appeal was made through Sheriff Moxlcy for additional help to keep the family from starva tion and want. It is stated that ?.t a member of the family excent th?-j mother is able to even walk abou. (he house and the mother is kept hesy waiting upon and serving those \vh? are still bedridden. A call for donations of mom> food of any kind to sustain the body i and to furnish nourishment to the ailing children and father, has bet broadcasted and the press has bee asked to help in the appeal. An\ i amount of food of any kind suitable! lor the human palate, will be thank fully accepted by the family, it : pointed out. Persons who feel that they want * contribute of their means to lulyj relieve this pitiable situation are a 1. t u by Sheriff Moxiey to send the aonations of money or food to T1 i.ias F. Miller, superintendent Ft.. Rock Baptist Sunday school, Ilanu tor.ville, N. C., and they may be .. I sured that every cent will be used i Mr. and Mrs. Southern and tlvi* ' children. i Do you take Your County Paper? ! he was out of oil. He again landed J safely, replenished his oil tank nnu i i was off afrain for Wnsbincrtor? H.-?' ? arrived there a day late, but went j on immediately to New York intend ing to make up time by returning to i Washington the same afternoon. f Lieut. Lindell started from New York just before twilight and a 1 strong wind almost immediately blew i him off his course. He finally found i himself on the edge of Chesapeake ' Bay fighting an outgoing wind. He i was forced to land, but it was too' 1 dark to see the ground. He final-; c ly decided to go it blind and landed I in a field but Lady Luck had her i - head turned the other way and he e hit the only tree in the field. His B plane crashed and was demolished, b but the aviator escaped with a slight i cut over the eye. / nt, and Watauga County, "lh** Lea? >LINA. THURSDAY APRIL 2G. i? TRUSTEES OF A. T. S. MEET The Trustees of the Appalachian Training School met at the Coffey Ho c! Monday night and Tuesday morning. Money matters, pertaining to the enlargement of the institution were descerned. The power plant had due consideration. Every piece is now ordered to repair the old plant. A new plant of some k?nd Will be built. The model school, the physical educational buildinsr. iht- imnrnv.-. merit of the grt unds were authorir ed. The Bourd was a unit as to the pol: y of the school. Expressed pppr. a! of the fac ulty as a whole, and Inc. five departments of the- student body. The Appalacn-an Trainirg Schooi ' forward looking?it i.-. to be a real "Normal College, v.i'n a fuU ct of Iwo years above a high Scl.-iol. -jfloiit liobefherti" is working He has 't ig plans for the furV of the school. When hebegins a !.. he never stands bac't until it i a "en accomplished. nreir.' were t ap*,. ! ?. F. 1. E. S. Coifey, Adoiphus Taylor. il c-offjsy. Mi.vB ESTHER RANSOM DIED IN HICKORY E:-titer Exum Ransom, daughter (>:" the late Senator and Mrs. M itt W Ransom, died suddenly at the suburhan home of her brother. Col. Robert Ransom, in the southern part of the city at 1 o'clock this mornin Organic heart disease was the cause. Saturday and Sunday Miss Ransom; wa iii apparently good health, and her brother had no reason to feel alarmed until late last night. She hadi suffered for some time with valvular heart disease, however, and the end cam* suddenly. Miss Ransom was born in Northampton county and came to Hickory jr, L87S and resided here and at Riewing Rock, a section of the coun-i try to which she was devoted. Her interest in the people of the mountains was genuine and helpful. She knew them aii for miles around and they loved her. In Hickory during the influenza epidemic in tht winter of 191 7-1S Miss Ransom served day and night and no call found her unwilling her purse always was ready to relieve tin- poor. Kducated at St. Marys, Raleigh; Ogontv. College and Patapsco Insti;utc, .:v. ?;>., and n? Mi>. l.i\in*a school in New York, Miss Ransom also was widely traveled, having accompanied her parent..' to Mexico while the senator was ambassador ; here and spent pau of her life 11* Washington. She was a membi'i- ?.' the Er>!>copal church* Miss Ransom is survived by fout brothers, J. K. and P. E. Ransom, Northampton county; Geo. E. Ransom, Halifax county, and Robert Ransom, Hickory. A sister-in-law, M?*.. M \V. Ransom, of Littleton, also survives.?-Hickory Daily Record, 17th. Louise Lorraine From bathing giri and minor rot04 til tho "movlea" to loado In comodln and later In leading roloe in eerlali In which oho faced many wild beaeta I then to star parte In feature pictured haa been the record of pretty Leuiei 1 Lorraine, whe ie known to all lever ! Of motion pictures ier of Northwestern Carolina." 923 MASS MEETING NOMINATES TICKET FOR COMING MUNICIPAL ELECTION On Monday night a good numh " of men, representatives of the different sections of the town of B e met at the Court House for | the purpose of nominating candidal for mayor and town aldermen, who are to be elected on May 8th. After stating the object of the meeting, Mayor Hahn appointed Mr. G. P. Hagumar. Chairman and Mr A. W. Smith, Secretary. Nomination being in order Mr Hahn, encumbent, was nominated by acclamation as candidate for Mayor. lie has gained great favor with the citizenship of the town g his term ic office, and des- j pit his protests, wil most likely be the next mayor, as no other nominations were made, arid there ! is apparently no diversity of pub* : li> rtiment as to this office. In order that there might lot he* di risfaction, and as the a -ur.- , biy Relieved, for the mutual : *' \ Vantage of all th? town . as divided into three sections?the western, including all west of the | ? n in House; while that part.bet 'i the Court House and the ' | residence of Or. Anders wa- dej -ignated as central, and from that point to the corporate limits, the : eastern?and representatives from < aeh of these sections nominated on man for Alderman. As a remjIi of the balloting: Mr. T. B. M< on- l)r. Ale. G. Anders ami Mr J. Frank Moore, the two latter serving on the old hoard, were nominated by the respective delegations. All of these men have the public good at heart, and should they be elected, we shall expect a fearless, progressive and efficient administration for the next two years. The assembly in rising took a vote of thanks to each of the former officials, in appreciation o? therr progressiveness and efficiency in office. COUNTERFEITERS FALL PREY TO SLOUTHS WHO SEIZE MAMMOTH PLANT United States officers assisted by Sheriff John Hardwood, of Durham county today etfeet.cd the arrest of four men alleged to he a part of a j southern branch of Chicago countov-j feilers, when a raid was made unm? the home o Ton*. Davis, several miles from this > . on ilu New Hope Valley road equipment for priming United States hank notes. Ti t men, \Y. T. D;;\ -. Alias Sam Davis, J. K. i. Davis; I R. Davis, .1. .1. Duvi- a .1: 1 ho mas Da .as, are being1 lie id in the comity Jau ander Heavy j bonds, ' ore: of which are S5,00hj each. Ih u.> ?(jaipmcnt seijecti at th?. j D^|s ! - vas a small press, green ink ph v> i'vr $50 notes, special I (taper, 1 steel rollers. All the ma- J oiuner;. except tne piaios were 111 a l trunk sail; to have beer shipped her from (. cago. The plate was found among me newly laundered cloches. Char!-, s Davis, sou of the man in whose house the printing outfit was found, was arrested in Chicago recently as a member of a gang of counterf ters. It. was. through Ids arrest t: federal authorities learned that t: other Davises lived in this state. Hen*: A Thomas, chief of the i Chariot?i bureau of the Treasury i? i partnn : and C. H. Hunnicutt., dept. i ty ma a A from Raleig-h, were the I fed era- oncers taking part in the I roundi p It, is stated that government detectives have been woik ::e on th. i tor more than a year. The Davis who was arrested in Chi cap -? said to have a long and varied criminal record in North Carolina, and at one time Served in the state prison for forgery. He is decided to have been pardoned by Governor Biekett several years ago. The roasury notes exhibited by the federal officers today, said to have been printed on the press just recently and passed in Salisbury and other sections of the state, were only fair specimens of counterfeiting. They were printed on two thin pieces of paper with silk threads carefully placed between them. Upon closer inspection the notes co nbe readily * detected as counterfeit. | The federal officers returned to Raleigh late this afternoon with the , equipment. ? Preliminary hearing has been set I for April 30 before Commissioner R. C. Cox. Published Weekly NUMBER 26 BLOWING ROCK ROAD TO BE HARD SURFACED Hickory, April 20.?With the announcement that the Blowing Rock highway between the concrete bridge, just noth of Hickory, to the Watauga line is t' be hardsurfaced as soon as practicable. Hickory and Catawba county people are thinking of the nearly thre. miles between this city and the bridge that must b epaved to mak" a through road from Blowing Rock to Gastonia and Charlotte. It is nor. expected to more than grade the highway this year. It will be ready for the hard-surface in 1924 and by the summer of 1925 will be completed, it is thought. Hickory will see to it that the Catawba link is built, an t' t. is hoped here that the Central highway jink between Newton and Statesville also can be built in the next low years. The Catawba county cormms: loners have been authorized by Cne general assembly - o assist in read construction, bur the question of locat ing t he Central highway between the river and Newton ha< r a used ih esubje** to ho dropped for the present. Prof. B. B. Dougherty, president of the Appalachian Training school sonv i iV.< ago gave a description of th oroad work being done from Boone to the T.nm-ssce lino and to Blowing Rock. A first rate all-year road is being laid, and part of it is now in g use. In another year there will he a good stain on hard surface from Hickory to Boone. CHEAP ADVICE It does beat all the immense quantity and varied assortment of good (?) advice one can gather in any community, entirely unsolicited, and we venture to say that if one should start out with an honest solicitation for advice, in twenty-four hours he would have cnought gathered to answer every purpose in life, if it would only come up to the guarantee. And it is observable that advice comes most fict^y from chase less qualified on any given subject. The man who never tasted liquor can tell the drunkard just how to quit drinknig and make a man of himself. The fellow who has never had the thrilling experience of holding a loving maiden's hand, can tell exactly how you can raise a large family and get along happily with your wife. The fellow who has never been sick a day in his life can diagnose your disease the minute you impart r?? him y*vi are "a bit under the weather." The fellow who can't write his own name knows just how the schools should be operated and what should be taught The fellow who can't repeal the Lord's prayer or the Ten Commandments knows exactly how to run the church or how i he preachers should preach. And the leliow that doesn't ... .u i:.*? - *m?w tin' uni erotic i?et\v?'t>n a priming press and a eider mill, or whether you spell buli with a big or small "b" can just beat the socks off the editor publishing a newspaper. Isn't ir ridiculous that all the immense amount of ego should be found waiting on every corner to harass people who are getting along of life and tending to their own business. The man who has thoroogh'y mustered one profession does not pretend to know everything. He knows that to keep up with his own vocation he has to keep busy learning the new things that are continually coming before him or he will loose out, and if you ask him for information on any subject which does nut come within the scope of his profession, hi will tell you frankly that he is not posted, and will refer [ you to some one that is. When you are sick you nave a pnysician visit \ou who knov s what to do for a man in your condition; you don't send Xor a plumber who was never sick a day in his*life. If you are a hibitual drunkard and want to quit the pesky stuff, you can't afford to take the preacher's or Sunday school teacher's advice who don't know the effect of hard cider, but rather you should confer with some one who has been through the mill and delivered himself safely from your same condiJ tion. And so it goes on down the line of life's everyday problems. Men who have drank deep in experience are the best advisors, but are loth in giving advice, fearing their good intentions will be misconducted and knowing that, after all, experience is the best and most reliable teacher.