(Omitted from last week.) Farmers can do tbelr hauling now since the road* have dried up. Miae Bertha Powell spent the week end with home-folks here. Mr. Char lie Winton of Parmele spent Saturday night and Sunday with his brother, . Mr. W. F. Winton. Z. V. Greeene and Walter Powell spent a short while in Woodland Sunday. Mr. and Mrs. Herbert Britton of Menola visited relatives here Sunday. Rev. W. H. Hollowell of Kelford filled his regular appointment here Satnrday and Sunday, preaching very able sermons at both services. proud of their county paper. Mr. S. W. Greene and family visited rcMfewi UNION? NEWS . (Omitted from last week.) Mrs. J. C. Benthall of Ahoskie, -pent a few days last week at the home of her daughter, Mrs. J. C. Brett Mr. and Mrs. A. M. Browne and ?iaughters, Janet and Dorothy Deans, were callers in Menola Sunday after noon. Mr. B. Vaughan of Suffolk, Va., was the guest of Mr. W. J. Vaughan last week. Mr. and Mrs J. A. Horton and fam ily, and Mr. and Mrs. G. A. Beverley motored over to Murfreesboro Sunday where they were the guests of Mrs. Horton's father Mr. W. H. Byrd. Miss Earle Wynne, a member of the Union school faculty, spent the week end with her parents at Evanstown. Mr. Leon Barham was a caller in Union Saturday evening. Mr. L. O. Wynne was in Union Friday. Miss Myrtle Swindell, county home demonstrator of Winton, was a visi tor at our school Friday. Mr. E. Parker of Aulander, was in Union IJriday. Miss Ada Caviness of Winton, spent the week-end in the home of Mr. and Mrs. E. E. Howell. Born to Mr. and Mrs. A. C. Horton, Sunday, March 25,?a fine girl. Mr. and Mrs. W. J. Vaughan went to Conway Sunday afternoon. The Union Betterment Society met Monday afternoon. Mrs. George Jl Neubern was a caller in our midst Friday. CO MO NEWS (Omitted from last week.) Mr. Guy Hill, his mother, Mrs. Gat tie Hill, Mrs. J. C. Taylor, and Mirs Gilliam spent Saturday in Norfolk, Va. Mr. J. O. Smith is spending a few days in Suffolk and Norfolk, Va. Mrs. R. A. Majette spent Saturday in Franklin, Va., shopping. ^ Mr. Bennie Whitley who has been quite 01 with fever is improving. Miss Annie Sue Winborne was a week-end visitor in Norfolk. Miss Sarah Leigh Taylor of Frank lin Sigh School spent the week-end with her mother Mrs. Eva Taylor. A number of ladies went to Mur freesboro last week on a shopping tour and especially to get spring hats. The roads around here are very much improved thanks to the weather. We are beginning to get fish from the fishery. Not many shad but lots of herring. CHRISTIAN HARBOR NEWS (Omitted from last week.) Miss Margaret Fairiess and Miss Thelma Forhand went to Colerain Tuesday on a shopping visit. Mr. E. V. Grissome and Mr. J. L. Blythe were visitors in Suffolk last Wednesday. Rev. R. B. Lineberry filled his ap pointment at Christian Harbor Sun day and preached a very good sermon. Our Sunday School has been re arranged and we hope it will be very successful. Miss Lillie Holloman returned home Saturday from Portsmouth leaving her grandmother very much improved. Miss Margaret Farless spent the past week-end in her home near Riverside. We are sorry' to note that Miss Thelma Forehand is ill with tonsi tMa. Mr. George Myers and Mr. Modd lin from near Harrellsville were visi tors at the home of Mr. E. V. Grisr som Sunday afternoon. Mr. Jean Coggins was a caller in our vicinity last Sunday. Everybody was enjoying a cool evening ride Sunday, the road; being xo much improved. Mrs. W. E. Cullens of Harrellsville was a caller in our community last Friday. ?Sand your 1922 PRINTING to tho HERALD, if you want food work, at the beet Prices. Fully equipped to do All Kindt of Commercial Printing. ? r PAT CROWE NOW LEADS FIGHT ON NARCOTIC RING ?: ? Notorious Kidnaper of Other Days Says Nation Is "Sleigh riding to Perdition." urn in DRASTIC ACTION IS NEEDED Interact* Mak*? Profit of $10,000? 000 a Year?Habit la Increasing ???. Stertlty "antf Enormously. Washington.?Twenty years ago, If Fat Crowe luul boon unwlae enough to appear uny where in Wusldngton, much lean at the ofllce of the head of the department of Justice, as he did re cently to interview the attorney gen eral, they would have grabbed him and put him away for 100 years or so. in those days Patrick was about the most wanted fugitive anywhere on the face of the globe. On his bead was a price of $50,000 and there was no stipulation attached to the reward re garding the condition of thfe said Crowe when delivered f. o. b. Dead or alive it was all the aanie to Justice. iloldup man, gun fighter, bank thief, train robber and kidnaper. Fat Crowe was a live-minute egg in the cafeteria of crime. Phyalcafly powerful, his unusually intelligent mind and his recklessness made him a particularly dungerous person. He put a mansard roof on his career when he kidnaped the Cudaby boy, son of the meat packer, and separated the mliiionafre from $25,000 in gold coin as ransom. All of that lies back in the fast dim ming past, back in the thickening shadows. Pat 'Crowe is a very differ ent sort of person nowadays. The black hair lias turned snow white?as white as the "snow" he denounces with the tire and fury of his Celtic temperament?and there are half a hundred tiny wrinkles crossing and criss-crossing the pink expanse of his good natured face. H?? Spiritual Rebirth. His physical strength hasn't wasted a great deal, and Pat would be a mean customer to handle In an Impromptu rough and tumble. The big change the whacking big metamorphosis, is In the innards of Patrick?a spiritual rebirth. The hard boiled egg and recklew criminal of 1902 is the gentle, self-ordaihed reformer of 1922 tre mendously interested in saving' boys and young men from the vicious hubits he sees increasing every day. "Sleighridlng to hell," says Pat Crowe, meaning that the drug habit is Increasing steadily and enormously for "sleighridlng" is one of the pic turesque words in the argot of the dope lif-nd. It is good, sound, logical s'ang, built oa constructive rules that Lindley Murray or Brander Matthews could scarcely sniff at (no ptln in tended). For in this singular argot "enow" means the "dope," the drug; for heroin, morphine and cocaine are as white as the driven snow and the I Biggest ion is simple and effective. When a purty of addicts meet to gether to whiff themselves Into ob livion the conceit has It that they are on a sleighing party, traveling smooth ly over the "snow." And it is this I frightful sleighridlng which will ruin the republic, asserts Pat Crowe, unless the government at Washington takes I hold with a strong hand. "There are 2,000,000 snow birds in Ithe United States to-day," says Pat referring to the documents he went over the other day with Attorney Gen I '"They spend between I (4,000,000 and $6,000,000 every day for I tlie dupe. There is no question but that the evli is spreading or that it will continue to spread. Spreads Crime Like Pestilence. "Back of the traffic is an interna tional ring, one or two of whose mem bers I could almost name, and they Ure served by hundreds of vicious tigenta, to whom human life is abso lutely less than nothing. They are I served by the cunning of serpents and I the cruelty of wolves. "1 he result is that the heads of the Isnow ring net something like $10,000, 1)00 a year proflt from the traffic in I he United States alone. This ring is backed by organized financial Interests. I Gvery day it spreads crime like a pestilence. For a price It deals out I agonized death. The heads of the snow ring are great* criminals thaD Judas IscarioL Their vendors are be Death the level of wldte slavers. I "Normal human beings have no Idea I whatever," Pat Crowe went on, ' of I what goes on in the dope circles of I New York or Chicago, among the big I cities, or in such peculiar communi ties as Hollywood, the motion pic [lure .-enter, where tliousunds live that I are half crazy from too much easy I money and too much notoriety, who have exhausted every normal sensa Itlon. But if the evil wes confined to I the cities it would not be so terrible to contemplate. ? "It Is no longer a city vice. It it spreading to the small cities and to (he country towns. This Is due in part to the returned soldiers, many of 11 whom had become accustomed to mor j I phlne or cocaine in the relief of suf fering from wounds. Some of It is due to t'i? temporaryftslt of young 11 tree? r ' ??iting votrtea. fhtr'ug ev Irfleu..n ir. tlx a no vi?? b ?t It Is tin* to tie deliberate effort of snow ring to extent Its field ef plum?l a corript tbe'smiul tow us u UUt big clUes 4U1VM M?B ,Vui?ODixl "Physician* lira m the pa, of the now ring. Nurses are m 1U pay. Drug stores and young drag derka that need money are bought up by the ring. 1 am speaking of the small town, mind you, not the big city, though tiie ?uwe la true in toe big city. Every devil tan trick and device that can be thought of la reaorted to by the agenta of the ring to eacoarage the uae of dope. a "Usually a little cocaine ia auggested aa a local anesthetic to relieve aorne sharp pain. Then a little muiyiiine may be recommended to overcome I nervous inability to sleep. Then heroin is introduced as 'something new and not so harmful as the old drugs,' and pretty soon another victim Is chained U the galleys. ~ ?1 "In the hrst place," fat Crowe con tinued, "1 recoinmtfe, at torney general. UmUvthere be a federal investigation ? congressional ? Into the drug evil in America. 1 find the government authorities impressed with the fscts and statistics that I laid be fore them. 1 think a resolution will be introduced in congress before long asking for an investigation. The next step will be corrective and construc tive. "It may be that the. government will, in the end, have to construct and maintain - sanitariums, one on the Pacliic coast, one on tha Atlantic coast, one on the Southwest coast, one in the Central States and one on the southeast coast or section, for curing the nation's drug addicts, thus making it more difficult fur the snow ring to extend its terrible traffic, a traffic tliui is actually and positively threatening the very bber of the nution's manhood. "1 have recommended to the United States government that a million farms of forty acres or less be provided by the government from what are now waste and unimproved lands, and that the government spend whatever is necessary to put these lands in shape for cultivation, and then offer them on long time and easy teruis to a million young men coining year by year into manhood. I ^orrw.uBnai meuiooi neeaea. ?More titan 75 per cent of the crimes committed In the United States would never have been perpetrated If youth.* had had the proper opportunity anil environment. Every year, it may in terest you to know, 400,000 persona, ! 100,000 of them neglected lads, are committed to various terms of im prisonment by the courts of this coun try?victims of economic conditions. "There is dire necessity of im [ mediate correctional methods before the crime or misdemeanor has been committed. Put the excess boys on farms. Encourage them. If neces sary use a little duress. Keep them In the open. Hake them produce. I Then the snow ring will lose Its re cruits and the vice will be stamped out as a Snake Is killed. "State reformatories are no good for correcting youths. They have failed to function for the good of society. Usu ally they inculcate vice rather than Implant virtue. The boy comes out worse, not better. Stfte and city in stitutions do not know how to treat and cure the drug hublt Usually they Increase the craving. "No; these reforms must be accom plished, like most other big things in these days, by the strong, efficient cen tral government. There is no other hope. "To get this done I have devoted my life. Before I die I want to see the snow ring ruined, its leaders rotting fa) jail and its agents shot down by policemen or sent away for long terras. I want to see federal farms in small plots offered to the American youth seeking opportunity and trem bling between vice and virtue. There are so many things I want to see?me, the old time crook." PARTY AFTER BURIED GOLD Americans Ask Costa Rica for Per mission to Visit Treasure Island." San Salvador, Salvador.?A party of American treasure-seekers has reached I San Jose, C'osta Rica, and applied to the government for permission to search for gold that is supposed to have been burled on Cocos island. This Island, 545 miles west south west of Panama, is the locale of Hob-' ert Louis Stevenson's "Treasure is land." Adventurers hare at one time and another visited this uninhabited spot in search of Spanish gold which ('apt. W. L. Morgan and his pirate crew are supposed to have stolen from Span ish churches in Peru In 1820. They Invariably returned empty-handed. ! New York City Beggars Earn $60 to $80 a Day ? ? * New York City is stirred over the increasing number of public beggars, ir was brought out at a recent aldermnnlc meeting that any nupiber of beggnrs were , averaging from $60 to $80 a day. The most select begging field Is in the theatrical district I where heart throb productions are playing. The audiences are torn with emotion at they leave ij and never fall to give alms. The next heat field Is the sub way exists, where stenogra " phers go tripping forth to work. : Beggars. 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