Hertford County Herald
t Published Every Friday by
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Owners
JAMES S. VINSON.
Editor and Manager
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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
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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.
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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 '-<??
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. shave, every time.
The newspaper is the best advertis
ing medium because the newspaper
is closer to the people than any other
advertising medium.
Every week a new record of the do
ings of mankind is gathered from the
? ends of the earth, the happenings in
the next street and the next house,
? are also there.
dTo hundreds of homes the Herald
will carry world news, editopals,
comics, and store news. Every page
'? is read, and next to the news jp the
reading will come the store news?
why? Because the Herald goes into
thrifty homes, always on the watch
for ways to save!
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N. C. STATE COLLEGE
The Textile Department of the
North Carolina State College, which
is the North Carolina Textile School,
has had a very successful year's work.
More students have been registred
this year than in any previous year,
and also a larger class has been grad
uated. The graduating class, which
numbers twenty-four, have all been
located and will work in the different
mills and allied industries.
At the Commencement exercises
Mr. L. W. Clark, general manager of
the Carolina Cotton and Woolen Mills,
Spray, N. C., presented to Mr. Wes
ley Irwin Pickens, of Charlotte, N. C.,
the student's medal which is given an
nually by the National Association of
Cotton Manufacturers to the student
having the highest proficiency in his
work. In order to obtain this medal
the school must fill the following re
quirements: There must be a good
equipment for instruction in cotton
manufacturing. The instruction must
be of recognised standard. There
must be at least fifty students taking
the textile course, and at least four
competitors for the medal. The Tex
tile Department fills all these require-'
ments, as there were registered one
hundred and seventy-five students,
and a graduating class of twenty-four.
This is the only textile school in the 1
South that has been awarded the
medal.
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GOVERNMENT SAV
INGS SECURITIES
Postmaster A. T. Williougby of the
Ahoskie postofflce says that the sus
tained popularity of Government Sav
ings Securities in the Fifth Reserve
District is indicated by a report just
received from Howard T. Cree, gov
ernment director of savings for the
district. According to the director,
the people of this district invested in
nearly three-fourths of a million dol
lars worth of Treasury Savings Certi
ficates during the month of May. The
exact figures compiled from two hun
dred and sixteen post offices and in the
Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond
are $718,683. This is a highly favor
orable contrast with the receipts from
the sale of savings securities in May,
1921, which were only $101,293.
The amount of these certificates
I sold in May, 1922, for each state is
; as follows: Virginia $169,276; West
Virginia $163,626; North Carolina
$122,626; District of Columbia $112,
i 225; Maryland $38,983; South Caro
? lina ,$27,425. In addition there were
i sold through the Federal Reserve
i Bank of Richmond $104,525, making
t a grand total of $718,683.
"This sum of nearly three-fourths
s of a million dollars," said the post
? master, "will mature and may be col
i lected in May, 1927, and the original
i investment will increase 26 per cent
s in the five years. This is an exhibi
> 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."
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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
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| 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.
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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
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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?, . .
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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.
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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
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Fancy Breakfast Bacon, 3-pound strip, pound, 18c?12-Ib. Can, $2.00
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THE FARMERS'
BEST FRIEND
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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
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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.
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Farmers-Atlantic Bank
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Ahoskie, N. C.
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