IT ATE APPROPRIATES MUCH.
Schedule of the Money Required to
Run Our State Institutions Ai
Laid l>own In Act Passed by Recent
Session of General Assembly. Hos
pital at Morganton Gets Biggest
Slice.
The following is the text of the
act making appropriations for the
State institutions which has just been
passed by the General Asembly:
The General Assembly of North Car- 1
olina do enact:
Section 1. That the sum of $30,- 1
004 is hereby appropriated for agri- :
cultural extension work for the year
1917, and the further sum of $49,731
for the year 1918, in order to get the
State's share in the Smith-Lever Con
gressional act.
Sec. 2. That the sum of $207,500 j
is hereby amftially appropriated for
the State Hospital located at Raleigh, j
including the epileptic department.
Sec. 3. That the sum of $237,500 as
hereby annually appropriated for the ,
support and maintenance of the State
Hospital at Morganton.
Sec. 4. That the sum of $120,000 is ]
hereby appropriated for the year I
1917, and the further sum of $125,
?00 for the year 1918 and annually
thereafter for the support and main
tenance of the State Hospital at
Goldsboro.
Sec. 5. That the sum of $68,000 is
hereby appropriated for the year 1917
and the further sum of $70,500 for
the year 1918 and annually thereaf
ter for the support and maintenance
of the school for the deaf at Morgan
ton.
Sec. 6. That the sum of $45,000 is
hereby annually appropriated for the
support and maintenance of the Cas
well Training School. That no patient
be admitted to, or retained in, the
said institution whose parents, guar
dian, or estate, is financially able to
pay, in whole or in part, the current
expenses for his or her maintenance
in said school, and this class of pa
tients shall not exceed one-third of
the entire number admitted to, or re
tained in, the said institution. Pay
ment as hereinbefore provided shall
be made monthly, for which the said
institution shall give its receipt.
That the board of directors shall
make thorough investigation of the
financial condition of the estate of the
patients or their parents now in the
said institution and of those who may
hereafter apply for admission, with a
view of ascertaining the ability of
each patient, his or her parents or
guardian, to pay for, in whole or in
part, for his or her maintenance.
Sec. 7. That the sum of $23,000 is
hereby appropriated for the year 1917
and the further sum of $22,500 for the
year 1918 and annually thereafter,
for the support and maintenance of
the Stonewall Jackson Training
School.
Sec. 8. That the sun; of $30,000 is
hereby appropriated for the year 1917,
and i he further sum of $40,000 for
the year 1918 and annually thereaf
ter, for the support and maintenance
of the State Sanatorium for Tuber
losis.
Sec. 9. That the sum of $165,000 is
hereby annually appropriated for
the support and maintenance of the
University of North Carolina.
Sec. 10. That the sum of $60,000 j
is hereby appropriated for the support
and maintenance of the East Caro
linalina Teachers' Training School.
Sec. 11. That the sum of $20,000 is
hereby annually appropriated for the
support and maintenance of the Ap
palachian Training School.
Sec. 12. That the sum of $11,200
if hereby annually appropriated for
the support and maintenance of Cullo
whee Normal and Industrial School.
Sec. 13. That the sum of $72,500 is ,
hereby annually appropriated for the
support and maintenance of the school
for the Deaf, Dumb and Blind, Ral- j
eigh.
Sec. 14. That the sum of $122,500 i
is hereby annually appropriated for (
the support and maintenance of the
North Carolina State College of Ag- ]
riculture and Engineering.
Sec. 15. That the sum of $125,000
is hereby annually appropriated for
the support and maintenance of the
State Normal and Industrial College '
at Greensboro.
Sec. 16. That the sum of $20,000 is
hereby annually appropriated for the
suaoort and maintenance of the Ox
p
fo *i Orphan Asylum, white.
?ic. 17. That the sum of $8,000 is j
hereby annually appropriated for the ]
support and maintenance of the Ox- t
ford Orphanage, colored, and that the <
further sum of $5,000 for the year i
1917 is hereby appropriated to help (
pay the indebtedness on said institu- ?
tion. . (
Sec. 18. That the sum of $42,500 ?
is hereby annually appropriated for 1
the support and maintenance of the 1
Soldiers' Home. ,
Sec. 19. That the sum of $200 is i
hereby annually appropriated for the 5
support and maintenance of the Con- I
federate Museum at R.< hmond, Va. (
Sec. 20. That the sum of $250 is <
hereby annually appropriated for the '
maintenance of the Confederate Cem
etery at Raleigh.
Sec. 21. That the sum of $200 is
hereby appropriated to the Guilford
Battle Ground to pay off the indebt
edness, Guilford Battle Ground hav
ing been taken over by the Federal
Government.
Sec. 22. That the sum of $2,760 is
hereby annually appropriated for the
support and maintenance of the Cher
okee Indian School.
Sec. 23. That the sum of $15,000
is hereby annually appropriated for
the support and maintenance of the
A. and T. College for Negroes at
Greensboro.
Sec. 24. That the sum of $20,000 is
hereby annually appropriated for the
support and maintenance of the State
Normal Schools for Negroes, and that
the further sum of $5,000 is hereby
annually appropriated for the per
manent improvement of said school.
Sec. 25. That the sum of $12,500
is hereby annually appropriated for
the support and maintenance of the
State Laboratory of Hygiene.
Sec. 26. That the sum of $10,000
is hereby annually appropriated for
the support and maintenance of the
Fisheries Commission.
Sec. 27. That the sum of $37,500 is
hereby annually appropriated for the
support and maintenance of the State
Board of Health.
Sec. 28. That this act shall be in
force from and after its ratification.
The Man Who Burns Dollars.
We all know him, the man who
burns dollars. At this season the haze
of blue smoke from burning stalks,
grass and other rubbish overhangs
his farm, alvertising his destructive
ness to the world.
He revels in the use of fire. Corn
stalks are cut and laboriously piled
by hand and the torch applied; grass,
straw, and weeds arc raked into long
windrows and burned. In fact, he
burns about everything in the fields
except the cotton stalks, and the only
reason these are not burned is because
years of burning vegetable matter
have so impoverished the soil that
it is incapable of growing anything
but "bumble-bee" cotton, the stalks of
which are too tiny to rake or pick
up. Let's -see what he's losing ? actu
ally throwing away.
From analyses at hand, it appears
that corn stalks and the accompany
ing fodder contain about one per cent
of nitrogen, or twenty pounds per ton,
worth at present prices about $5.
Weeds, grass and similar materials
probably run equally high in nitrogen
content. Thus the man who burns a
ton of corn stalks, grass or weeds is
deliberately destroying $5 worth of
plant food, since fire drives off into
the air practically all the nitrogen
contained. We believe the humus val
ue of such materials is as high as
their direct fertilizing value and if
this be so, their burning means a total
loss of 310 for each ton destroyed. In
other words, the man with a twenty
acre field of corn stalks, assuming
1000 pounds of stalks per acre, is los
ing a round $100 when he burns these
instead of plowing them under. At
the same time he is probably buying
fertilizers at high prices in the effort
to keep his humus-hungry fields up to
profitable yields.
It is not enough to say that stalks
and grass are in the way of cultiva
tion, for if they are cut to pieces and
plowed under in time they will very
soon be thoroughly rotted and incor
porated with the soil; nor is it enough
to say that we have no implements
for cutting the stalks to pieces, for
if we have no disk harrow or stalk
cutter, it will pay many times over to
chop up the stalks with a hoe, rather
than sacrifice their plant food and hu
mus value by burning.
This i3 a time for soil conservation
and soil building, a time for saving
and utilizing every possible pound of
plant food. The man who fails to do
these things, who burns plant foods
instead of saving them, will sooner or
later find himself up against poverty
an a worn-out farm.
He will have burned dollars too
long. ? Progressive Farmer.
AGED MAN ATTENDS FUNERAL.
David Faulkner, 98 Years Old. Walks
to Funeral of "Uncle Sam"
Hoover.
David Faulkner, born December 15,
1818 and now entering upon his 99th
fear, walked thr s
Point Thursday afternoon for a dis
,ance of several blocks, unaided and
.inattended, going to attend the fu
leral services of his old friend, "Un
?le Sam" Hoover, who died Monday
;venirg at the hospital following a
?ritieal illness of four months. "Uncle
Sam", whose real name was Sam A.
Hoover, was 87 years of age during
ast November and he was a good Elk,
me boasting a membership of many
years. For the past seven years, ever
;ince his return from Indiana, he has
leen making his home at the Elks'
"Mub building, in High Point, and to
?very member and visitor he was
'Uncle Sam."
FOOD PLAN PROVES A FAILURE.
Germany Has Failed To Conserve
Supplies. Prussian Pood ( ont roller
Lays Hlame For Food Shortage
I'pon German Populace. Workmen
Suffer Most.
London, March 8. ? The Prussian
food controller, Dr. George Michaelis,
made in the Pressian diet yesterday
what the Koelnische Zeitung calls a
serious speech on the food situation,
says a Heuter dispatch from Amster
dam. Dr. Michaelis declared that the
state of things, especially in the large
industrial centers, could hardly be im
agined. He indicated the possibility
that all surplus stocks of grain would
be exhausted and said (hat very radi
cal measures were needed to enable
the people to hold out until next
year.
"We have in the third year of the
war," the food controller is quoted as
saying, "discovered that among all
sections of the people the general
feeling evinced is not one of that en
durance for which we had hoped. This
is human nature, but it is highly de
plorable and may have most serious
results.
"We have not perceived in the towns
that stern supervision which is abso
lutely necessary in the distribution of
foodstuffs. There has been widespread
abuse of bread tickets, entailing grave
consequences as regards our stocks.
Bread tickets have been illegally used
on such a shocking scale that our en
tire reserves were exhausted.
"So, when potatoes failed and bread
was ordered as a substitute, there
was none available. Flour has been
similarly reduced, owing to similar
irregularities in the mills."
Dr. Michaelis concluded by urging
the utmost severity to remedy the
short comings while there was yet
time. Some of the mills would have to
be closed and the municipalities de
prived of their powers. Rationing and
requisitioning must be structly ap
plied with respect to eggs, milk, but
ter, fruit and vegetables. He added:
"We are confronted with the
thought of what would happen if this
measure also should fail and what
grim starvation there would be if
suddenly during the closing months
of the economic year, we should find
there was insufficiently and we could
not hold out. The ensuing misery
would be indestribable."
The speech caused a sensation and
the socialist Hufer, who followed, ac
cording to the Rheinish Westfalisehe
Zeitung, declared that the Junkers
were to blame if a famine supervened.
An attempt was being made, he said,
to shift the blame on England.
"The selfishness of the Agrarians,"
he said, "is the cause of the high
prices. The war would long since have
been ended if everybody had to suffer
hunger equally."
The minister of agriculture then
spoke and vigorously defended him
self against attacks. He alluded to the
critical situation created by the par
tial success of the entente's plan of
starving Germany, and added:
"For the small bread ration one
can only make the Almighty respon
sible, who has not given us the har
vest we expected."
WIGGINS WINS IN CONTEST.
East Durham Student Wins Medal
Over 52 Contestants at Wake
Forest.
Competing against 52 preparatory
schools, representing every section of
the State, Aubrey P. Wiggins, of
East Durham, high school, speaking
on "The Unknown Speaker," at Wake
Forest Friday afternoon, won first
place in the initial annual inter-scho
lastic declamation contest at Wake
Forest College, and was awarded a
first prize valued at $62.50, consisting
of a scholarship in the college and a
handsome gold medal. Martin Luther,
of White Oaks high school, was
awarded the second prize, a gold pin.
MRS. JOSEPHITS DANIELS
Since hep husband became a mem
ber of President WMson's Cabinet
four years ago Mrs. Josephus Dan
iels, wife of the Secretary of the
Navy, has made herself one of the
best loved women In Washington.
She is a North Carolinian and very
popular throughout the state.
Got a Poor Grade of Cottonseed Meal.
A reader writes: "I was quoted 7'
per cent meal at $2 per hundred j
pounds and per cent meal at $2.10
per hundred. I ordered 7 per cent !
meal and when it arrived the tag on I
! the sack reads "20 per cent protein."
1 took 7 per cent to mean 7 per cent |
of nitrogen content and according to
method of finding amount of protein |
given in article on cottonseed meal
for mules in last issue of The Pro
gressive Farmer, I should have re- j
ceived meal containing 43.75 per cent !
protein, instead of only 20 per cent."
Our inquirer is in error only at one j
' was quoted 7 per cent cottonseed meal
does not mean that meal contains 7
j per cent of nitrogen. That is what
' such a statement should mean and
will when the cottonseed meal and J
fertilizer manufacturers learn their
best interest or the lawmakers learn j
their duty. But at present "7 per |
cent cottonseed meal" means that it I
contains 7 per cent of "ammonia." {
This means at present that the meal
contains 5.76 per cent of nitrogen or
36 per cent of protein. If our reader
was quoted 7 per cent cotonseed meal
at $2 per hundred pounds and receiv- 1
ed meal containing only 20 per cent
protein, or 3.88 per cent of ammonia i
(3.2 per cent of nitrogen) he is, on
a basis of the nitrogen or protein
content, entitled to a rebate of about
90 cents a hundred, but since the'
larger per cent of carbohydrates in
the low grade meal is worth some
thing, possibly a rebata of somewhere
around 75 cents, or 80 cents a hun
dred would be approximately correct.
To reduce the per cent of ammonia
to nitrogen, multiply by 14 and divide
by 17, for only 14-17 of ammonia is
nitrogen, the other 3-17 is hydrogen;
or multiply the per cent of ammonia
by 82. To change the per cent of ni
trogen to ammonia multiply the per I
cent of nitrogen by 17 and divide by
14, or multiply by 1.2. But this should \
not be necessary, for ammonia should
never be used as a measure of nitro
gen. To find the per cent of protein,
when the per cent of nitrogen is giv
en, multiply by 6V?, or to find the
per cent of nitrogen, when the per
cent of protein is given, divide by
6'/i. ? Progressive Farmer.
books for Children.
Just received a few books suitable
for children from five to ten years of
ape, as follows:
"Blackie, a Lost Cat."
"Squinty, the Comical Pig."
Price of Each 50 Cents.
AT THE HERALD OFFICE.
YOU MAY HAVE AN ALMANAC,
but you need a North Carolina Al
manac which is better. You should
buy a Turner's ? worth 10 cents
Beaty & Lassiter, Smithfield, N. C
THE SMITHFIELD BUILDING &
Loan As?ociation has helped a
number of people to build homes.
It will help others, and maybe you.
New series of shares now open.
See Mr. J. J. Broadhurst.
FOR WIRE FENCING, ANY
height, see the Cotter Hardware
Company, Smithfield, N. C
IF YOU HAVE A FARM YOU
wish to sell, write Box 123, Smith
field, N. C.
FARM FOR RENT? GOOD TWO
horse farm 6 miles from Smithfield.
Good lrnd, good buildings. Apply to
J. C. Stancil, Smithfield, N. C.
WORTH WHILE.
It is easy enough to be pleasant
Wrhen life flows by like a song,
But the man worth while is the man who will smile
When everything goes dead wrong;
For the test of the heart is trouble,
And it always comes with the years,
And the smile that is worth the praises of earth
Is the smile that shines through tears.
It is easy enough to be prudent
When nothing tempts you to stray {
When without or within no voice of sin
Is luring your soul away;
But it's only a negative virtue
Until it is tried by fire,
And the life that is worth the homage of earth
Is the one that resists desire.
By the cynic, the sad, the fallen,
Who had no strength for the strife,
The world's highway is cumbered to-day;
They make up the item of life;
But the virtue that conquers passion,
And the sorrow that hides in a smile,
It is these that are worth the homage of earth,
For we find them but once in a while.
? Selected.
WHO WEARS THEM?
The FASTIDIOUS WOMAN who
wishes at all times to appear at her
best.
The STYLISH WOMAN who keeps
step with the Fashion changes.
The WORKING WOMAN whose
figure demands comfort and support
while performing the duties of her oc
cupation.
The ATHLETIC WOMAN requir
ing freedom of action when horse
back, playing golf or tennis or tramp
ing cross-country.
The Mother, the Daughter, Young
and Old, all of them ask for and re
commend
as the one Corset that provides for
the style and comfort demands of all
figures.
There is a model to suit your figure
and the price may be from
$1.00 TO $8.50
Cotter-Underwood Co.
Smithfield, N. C.
KING'S BIGNESS COLLEGE
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