Hertford County Herald t Published Every Friday by VINSON * PARKER Owners JAMES S. VINSON. Editor and Manager Subscription Prico One Year - $t.5l Six Month*.. .71 Three Months ?... .4( Advertising Rates Very reasonable and made known or request. Entered as second-class mail mattei February 25, 1910, at the posoffiet at Ahoskie, North Carolina, vradw the Act of March 8, 1878. K > y ' " ? . . > * - '' 1 Tig AMERICAN PRESS ASSLCIATION I Friday, June 30,1922 BETTER TIMES We have been hearing for some time that "better times" were just around the corner and from reading the advertisements of the Bank of Ahoskie and the Farmers-Atlantic Bank which appear in this issue of the Herald, we are sure that better times are here now. In fact when we see the headings of bank advertisements and read "Money .to Loan," "The Farmer's Best Friend," etc., we are assured that better times must be close to us. This is no time to be arguing hard times. This is a time when we all should get so busy that we haven't got time to think about hard times. The man who sits around holler ing "hard times" is the man who ?ever sees anything but the worst of things. The depression through which we have just emerged, is only a good experience for us if we will only think about it in the right way, it will be a great help to us in the future. With bank resources of nearly a million dollars in Ahoskie, we say things are bound to be in fairly good condition. n THE DISGRACE OF ILLINOIS It is difficult to believe that we are supposed to be living in a civilized country with law, justice and order as abiding principles and equal rights to all in the pursuit of happiness. Too often we are forcibly and rudely reminded how very thin the veneer of civilization really is, how often the innocent are oppressed, not given ? show and even murdered in cold btood just as was done in the darkest ages of history. In the Commonwealth of Illinois the other day, several thousand strik ing coal miners attacked a mine being operated by non-union men to the nnmber of about seventy-five. The non-union miners surrendered to the besiegers, were tied together in bands of six, ordered to run and then were shot down in cold blood as they did so. What manner of doing is this and where are we when affairs like this are permitted? As usual there will probably be more or less of a prefunctory investigation. When it ends, nothing will really be done, no body will be punished for this feenious crime, the public will pay the bill for the "investigation," and the men who were exercising the perogatives guar anteed them in the Constitution of the United States, paid with their lives. Truly this blow shakes the very foun dation of our government. There is one side lesson to be gath ered from this debacle though. In affairs of this kind?squabbles be tween employers and their employes; H is the third party who gets it in the neck, whether it be the public gen erally who are inconvenienced, or arc deprived of the necessities of life, in. eidental to the quarrel; or the mer who are employed to take the place) vacated by the strikers. The last nhmed catch it from both sides While they are working, the striken would destroy them and when th< quarrel is over, the first, many timei the only concession, to the strikers it that the men who kept the work; going* when no one else would, an thrown over, in complete disregard oi any representations made to them be fore by the employers. In contem plating one of these situations, it ii well for the layman to bear this ii mind; thus It has always worked an< exceptions only prove the rule. Let not your symathies he swaye< with the operators of these coal minei for stern condemnation Is due botl the operators and these savagi miners, but consider the rights an< justice of the matter; why is it tha innocent men are massared and th< public robbed and made to suffer 01 account of such a state of affairs. I DOESNEWSPAPER ADVERTISING PAY Does newspaper advertising pay? This has come to be a an perilous question among men of business. ' There was a time when to have de clare# boldly and out luod in a public place that it paid to advertise in the ? newspapers would probably have stir red up a chorus of dissenters, but to I day advertising is better understood, j All advertising is good?some ad , vertising is better?but the very best advertising on the face of this earth is that which slips into the home alongside of the news, in the news ' paper! To be sure?the best bit of soil that ever lay out of doors requires sorae " thing more than merely dropping the > seed into the ground?give your news ? pacer '- tion of financial wisdom, which should r be imitated by thousands of others - who, in vain hope of getting rich - quick, put their savings in schemes of ? questionable character, when there is i no certainity of return of either prin 1 cipal or interest. It is better to be safe than sorry." 1 ? ft i Up in Davenport, Iowa, one weary 1 taxpayer declares society is divided e into two classes, vis., those who still 1 have a little and those who have a t little still. There is another class e made up of those who "ain't go t nothin,' and aint had noe."?Houston Post 1 | MUST NEVER BE OFF GUARD Man Who Train or Caro for Wild |x Animal* In Clrcuoaa Cannot Afford to ftolax Vlgllanc*. There"* ? saying In the circus too when a new attendant, disregarding the ? warnings of old-timers, becdmes care less while working about the cages. "Here's a new animal trainer," the veterans will remarl, as they watch > the fresh helper petting a tiger or a I leopard. 'They know that ft is only a matter of f few days until the "cat" will lash out with Its claws unsheathed and rip the arm of the newcomer. They also know that nothing will teach this 1 type of attendant the alert carefulness necessary In handling wild beasts but an ugly scratching. They can only hope that the man's hurts will be slight. He.must have a lesson. He must realise that all aniens Is are dangerous at all times, even If some ?are rnpre. a? the* ?rb#es. , .-j! V jJL , .jii> ??,?? ?s contemptuously remarked, writes Prank Braden In Popular Mechanics Magastne, that such and such a beast In an act is "just a mangy, toothless old lion," but often that mangy, toothless old Hon. because i of its rage. Is more dangerous than Its mates In their prime. The old Hon is , testy, and no matter what Its years, it carries a wallop backed by ripping claws. Some of the world's foremost j trainers, working with the same beasta ? In acts year after year, have paid for . the slight carelessness that familiarity With and affection for tpeir jungle pets have Insidiously brought about. At an unexpected diversion?the overturning of a pedestal, for Instance?the animals have leaped upon their mentor, I but with the element of complete sur prise absent, no real wtld-animal expert Is caught completely unaware t. by a beast's leap. KNEW ALL ABOUT "LA GRIPPE" People of the Eighteenth Century Suffered From Ite Attaeke at Do Thoee of Today. Amid all our sufferinga from the "grip," "Russian influenza," "bllta katarrh," "Spanish influenza," "flu," et Id omne genus, the name and writ ings of Sebastian Mercler are too much forgotten. In bis picturesque "Tableau de Paris" is to be found the following passage on the "grippe," written In 1787, which might hare been written today: "Almost every year toward the middle of November occur catarrhal indispositions caused by the presence of a humid and cold atmosphere and fogs which suppress transpiration. Many die of It, but the Parisians, who laugh at everything, call these colds the 'grippe,' the flirt,' but the laugher three days later ia hflnaelf 'gripped* by it and goes down to the grave. "Passing from old rooms and theater halls to the open air makes this sup- = preasldn of the transpiration almost unavoidable. TV new fashion of wearing long cloaks is excellent. It gives protection against the cold. Tak ing good exercise is even a surer remedy. The women who are compelled to wait some time for their carriages ?those charming, delicate women I aee shivering along the staircases and porticoes?should consider that their peliaaee are not sufficient to protect them against mishaps." What would be have said to tha ab breviated skirts of today! , Radio In YooomMo. Yoeemlte's pulte cliffs rise straight Into the air for 8,400, 4X>00 and oc casionally 0X100 feet. Toeemite valley la literally a "bole to the ground," and some wireless experts declared lo cal conditions were entirety against successful operation of a wireless sta tion there. Nevertheless, valley folk recently have been getting news re ports. weather predictions, market quotations and lots of good music right out of the air, with no other aerial than wires strung between two of the giant trees with which the valley floor Is forested. Edwin J. Symrnea, of Alameda, put In the first wireless set for his own apiusement and has received messages from several score damped and un 1 damped wave stations, Including Hooo j lulu and Catalina Island. Government authorities also have put In a station, which will be used to keep In touch with the outside world. : < . Change* In the Pleiades. The question present* Itself whether three stars of the constellation of the Pleiades have less brilliancy than for merly, or whether prehistoric man had ? better sight than ours, or if he was wont to climb up the mountains to examine the Nearest star*, or If the atmosphere of past ages was purer than ours? This problem arises from the fact that we see from below only seven of the stars of the Pleiades and that the last three stars can only be seen by ascending to the highest sum mits, while there have just been dis covered stones dating from prehistoric times upon which the ten stars are engraved. This Interesting question In astronomy and archeology has been broached to the French Academy of Sciences by M. Blgourdan. Telephone Improvement. Considerable progress has been made In tha development of telephonic bear ing aids for Jje partly deaf, but the limit had apparently been reached along this line nntU the new \aruam tube ampUfler described In the Popu lar Mechanics Magaslne was produced. This tube, the result of the efforts of i many Inventors,- consists primarily of i a small electric bulb having within It i a filament, a spiral wire called a grid, and a ?talUr plats, all in the erdes named r~" ~==~ Pender's Near A. C. L. Depot, - - Ahoskie N. C. LOOK FOR THE YELLOW FRONT? When PENDER'S comes to town prices go down- Stop and think for a minute what it means to a community to hare a PENDER'S STORE. Strictly high grade groceries at most reasonable prices C]ai1m * Save Trouble Self Rising { J2-Jb Bag 49c? r lour j pa|a? B?t pa(e?, . . ? ; _? ? , ? -*r. ' ? This is the best quality of flour milled in N. C. Our guarantee goes with every bag OBELISK FLOUR, - 12-lb Bag 60c - 24-lb bag $1.19 Sugar, beat granu lated for ?6ic COFFEE D. P. BLEND pound 31c Absolutely the world's best. In buying this coffee you do not pay for fancy containers nor National Adver tising. Hash, King- | P an's 2 lb can*?*C Butter, Meadow Gold, lb. dfi prints TVv Pork, Salt | 7. Bellie, lb * ? C Pork, Salt 1 A Plates, lb Beans, |A Campbells' *UC Soup, 1 Ar Campbells' * Coffee, Gold-AO en Blend, pound. An un usually good drink, worth 30c. Salmon, T."10c Milk, Eagle | O Brand, can^O^ Best quality Santos, Coffee, Green, per 20r pound? *i"v Post Toasties, Kel log's Corn Flakes, three Id _ for__ Z5C Lard, Best 1 i "pure, pound It'C Beef, Corned, Wil son's No. 2 can, 24 ounce, 0| New York"* ^ Beef, Corned, Wil son's 6 lb. CC can D?#C Peaches, Gibraltar Brand, fancy California, in heavy syr- Od^ up, can "3C Milk, Rogera Evap orated, Q large can *''? BIG REDUCTION IN NATIONAL BISCUIT GOODS ? package 10c Cheese Sandwiches, Social Teas, Lorna Doones, Butter Thins, Oatmeal Bicuita, Cocanut Taffy Bars, 5 O'clock Teas, Large Graham, Whole Wheat Biscuits, Tokens, Unity Iced Jumbles. ? Butter, D. P., cut from or- At9 iginal tub, pound. The high est qualty on the market. Why pay for fancy cartons? These are a few of our many economy prices. All goods in Pender's Stores are plainly marked Come in and look us over. GET AN ITEMIZED PRINTED RECEIPT WITH PURCHASES ^ Fancy Breakfast Bacon, 3-pound strip, pound, 18c?12-Ib. Can, $2.00 * THE FARMERS' BEST FRIEND ' . One of the chief concerns of this bank is to bring relief'to the farmers in this sec tion. It is going up to the limit in loyal * ? 4 j attempts to tide them over in this time of de pression. , In fact this bank is giving more thought to-day than ever before to ways of adding to the farmers' prosperity. Bring your troubles to us, and we'll plan together what is the best thing to do. Our interests are mutual. * ? ? Farmers-Atlantic Bank ~7"',si ?'Wf:w** ?'? -.*? vwv*^-*??1 '??? ?. ???? Ahoskie, N. C. ? " " 4 * ? 2> .- '