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THE SIDED HERALD Published Every Tuesday and Friday. BEATY & LASSITER Editors and Proprietors, Smithfield, N. C. RATES OF SUBSCRIPTION: Cash in Advance. One year, $1.50 Eight Months, 1.00 Six Months, .75 Three Months, .40 Entered at the Post Office at Smith field, Johnston County, N. C., as Second-class Matter. aOOCOOOOOOOOOCIOCiOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOCiOOOCCCCOQ IMPORTANCE Ol THE PACKING PLANT. For several weeks a movement has been on foot to build a packing plant in Raleigh. That city is centrally located and has men who are willing to take on themselves a liberal amount of the expense of building the plunt in order to get it. They believe the plant will pay well and that those who buy stock in the plant will get good returns from their money. It is certain that all the towns cannot have packing plants and it is desirod that all the sections around Raleigh shall co-operate to build and make successful the Raleigh plant. A packing plant ut Raleigh would not only be a good investment for the promoters but would add greatly to the prosperity of all the surround ing counties. As most of the farmers know our trouble has been to find a market for our stock, a plant at for all the hogs and cattle we could rjiise. The next meeting in the inter est of this packing plant will be held in the Court House at Smithtield on Monday, May 21st, at 2 o'clock. Wc? hope you can arrange to attend this meeting. THE EIGHT HOUR DAY. A few years ago the United States employes began to clamor for an ?eight-hour day and they got it. Lnter people in other lines of work made the same demand and were given an vight-hour day. The public generally seemed to think this all right and so one after another business was put on the eight-hour day basis. When the clothing makers changed their hours of work little was said about it, but it meant a difference of several thousand dollars to Johnston County alone. The eight-hour day is one of the causes of so many advances in prices. Manufacturers are not getting the output they did when their em ployes worked nine and ten hours and so they are forced to put their prices up. January 1st the railroads put a large number of their men on the eight-hour day basis and now they are demanding fifteen per cent ad vance on freight rates. They say they are compelled to do this on account of the increase in the operating ex penses. In the par t this country has made great advancement, but it did not do it on an eight-hour basis. Nor do we believe that this country can make the advancement it should make with its workers doing only eight hours work per day. What if the business men should refuse to work over eight hours per day? They could not at all keep up with their work. Suppose farmers should adopt the eight-hour day? There would not be enough made to support the peo ple of tho country. People generally would not at all agree to the idea of farmers adopting the eight-hour day. They want the farmers to work from twelve to sixteen hours per day to raise a support for them while they work only eight or less. A few months ago an effort was made by certain congressmen to get some who are working only seven hours to go back to the eight-hour day, but they failed. With some the motto seems to be, "As big pay as possible, as few hours as possible and just as lit tle in those hours as possible," and this is bound to make things higher. There is no telling to what heights the priecs will go and the eight-hour day is largely responsible for the ad vances. If the American people want short hours and bit; pay for work they may expect high prices for what It ?II. LEARNING TO EAT THINGS. We are all more or less creatures of habit. This applies to our diet as much as to us in any other way. We eat mainly what we were taught to eat. We like what we have learned to like. A certain woman remarked that, she expected to teach her children to like and to eat some of everything set before them and she came very near doing that. It is much better to learn to eat some of anything placed on the table. Sometimes it is embar rassing to all concerned for one not to be able to eat this, that or the other. Why is it that so many of the old people like corn bread as well or bet ter than biscuit? It is because a long time ago very little flour was used in this section and they learned to use corn bread almost exclusively. Why is it that so many people in the coast country of North and South Car olina anil Georgia like rice? Because formerly it was grown in the low lands of these sections and the people learned to eat it. In these sections the people eat also grits or hominy extensively because before the days of steam mills the small water mills on the little branches could not grind corn into fine meal and the people learned to eat part of it in hominy instead of bread. Of course there are exceptions to the rule, but usually people can learn to eat and enjoy what is prepared if an effort is made to do so. WHAT WOMEN CAN DO. The following paragraph is worth reading and heeding: "What cnn the women of our town do to win tho war? She can do much ? many things. Tho principal thing she can do, however, is to reduce the cost of her own table by increasing the production of garden foods at home. Every penny's worth of food she raises releases just that much that can be devoted toward feeding some other person who has no place for a garden. In addition to feeding the people of our own country, we must supply food for the people of Eng land, France, Russia and Italy, in which countries so many people are fighting that they can not produce enough food to keep their people from - White -tawd-of the family in this town is conducting his business affairs, the wife and young sons and daughters can do much in the garden, and in this crisis it will be a signal honor for them to do so. When you see a woman planting and weeding and caring for her garden you will know that there is a woman who has principle as well as pluck, and one who places the welfare of her country above the soiling of her hands." Two Killed When Airplane Falls. Victor Carlstrom, a famous aviator, and Carey B. Epes, were killed in stantly at Newport News Wednesday when an airplane crumbled in midair and fell 3,f>00 feet. Epes resigned from a bank only last week to enter the Army Aviation Corps, and was making his first (light as a student. Both young men were to be married soon and the would-be brides were in Newport News when the horrible ac cident occurred. The "Snow Baby" To Wed. Miss Ahnighito Perry, daughter of Admiral Perry, the famous explorer, will soon wed Edward Stafford, of Washington. Miss Perry was born on Sept. 12, 1893, at a place in the Arctic which can only be designated as latitude 77 deg. 44 min. north and longitude 76 deg. west. She is known among the Eskimos as the "snow baby". She has made several trips to the far North with her father and has recently been taught by him to run an aeroplane. Admiral Perry is president of the Aero Club of America. Bull Wrecks a Train. Lloyd K. Enloe, a fireman on the Murphy division of the Southern, was killed, and three other trainmen were injured one day last week when two freight engines were detrailed near Junaluska by a bull, one engine turn ing over. Enloe was caught in his cab and was crushed so that he died a few minutes after being removed, lie was in the second engine of a double-header, and his cousin, A. E. Enloe, who was engineer, was unin jured save for a few bruises. Engineer C. Burke and Fireman O. H. Brad shaw, on the first engine, were also slightly injured. Two engines were drawing the heavy freight train, and were making slow time near Junaluska, when a bull butted into the forward engine and was drawn under the wheels, derail ing both engines. GENERAL NEWS PARAGRAPHS. Home of the Important Happening* of the Past Few Days Clipped and Culled from the Daily Papers for Hu?y Readers. Five Russian officers and one pri vate lost their lives yesterday when it big Russian biplane in which they were flying fell to the ground at Monaster Zkyska, northeast of Stan- j islau, in Galicia, from a height of 990 feet, says the official statement issued Sunday by the Russian War Depart ment. The Shipping Board plana to have built within the next eighteen months at least 1,000 ships, steel and wood, of more than .'{,000,000 aggregate tonnage to combat the German sub marine campaign. Bills to be intro duced in Congress this week call for an initial appropriation of $400,000, 000. Later an additional $340,000,000 will be asked, and if this is not enough still more will be sought. Signing of the first contract for ship construction under the Adminis tration's billion dollar program has | been announced by the Federal Ship Iping Board. The contract went to the | L? >s Angeles Shipbuilding & Drydock |('o., and called for delivery in 1918 of eight steel vessels each to carry 8,800 tons of cargo. It also has been announced that the board is bargain i ing for 250,000 tons additional steel j and wood tonnage, for delivery as 'early as possible. Some of the wooden j ship already are under construction, j their builders proceeding without awaiting formal contracts. A warning that each section of the United States must feed itself or go without food was voiced in Baltimore Sunday by Carl S. Vrooman, Assist ant Secretary of Agriculture. He said that with cotton at 22 cents a pound, Southern planters are ploughing land that has already been planted to cot ton, and planting in food stuffs. "We must awaken," he said. "The subma rine is a much more potent weapon than we imagined. The Allies were losing the war when we entered it, and will '?se it unless we expend ev ery eftort of men, money and econ omy. It is now a war of conservation of resources." Foreign Minister Arthur J. Balfour, of Great Britain, head of the war mis sion to the United States, spent a somewhat militant Sunday, although it was supposed to be a day of rest for the weary envoys. In the morning, he went to the Cathedral of St. John the Divine, where he listened to a war sermon by the Rev. Dr. Charles ,l- tfrent, Episcopal Bj?hop of xht Philippines. In the afternoon, he went to Oyster Bay for a visit to Col. Theodore Roosevelt, who hopes to head a force of volunteers to fight in France. There were no formal enter tainments for the members of the mission, and Mr. Balfour's colleagues spent the day as they pleased. Boston gave a warm greeting Sun day to Rene Viviani, former Premier of France and head of the French War Mission to the United States. The distinguished visitor, coming a day after the city had outstretched its amis to Marshal Joffre, was feast ed, toast and cheered by thousands. Notwithstanding a cold drizzling rain that fell all day, M. Viviani and his party were taken through streets decorated with the colors of France, Great Britain and the United States, and were applauded enthusiastically wherever they went. Crowds braved the elements to get only a glimpse of the guest as his automobile dashed from place to place in the busy day's program. The designation of Col. John M. Carson, quartermaster in New York for the United States Army, as super intendent of Army transport service of the port of New York by Secretary of War Baker is a step in a definite plan to co-ordinate millitary ship ments of the United States and the Entente Allies from this port through the appointment of a special shipping board yet to be named, it was an nounced in New York Sunday. The announcement was made in a state ment issued by Edward D. Page, chairman of the New York Advisory Committee of the quartermaster's de pot. As outlined by Mr. Page, the board is expected to include expert shipping and railroad men, as well as representatives of the Government and the Allies. The full quota of 40,000 men, which the War Department requested for the officers' training camps throughout the country, was recruit ed within twenty days after the is suance of the call, Capt. Arthur F. Cosby, of the Military Training Camps Association, announced in New York Sunday night. After the completion of the first camps, which will begin their work today, Captain Cosby said it is expected another se ries of camps will be held, probably in August. "Men who were eligible but! were not selected for the first camp will have an opportunity to make ap plication for this new camp," said Captain Cosby. "It is not necessary , for men who contemplate going to the -second camp to send in their ap plications now, as due announcement will he given in the newspapers." I The Corn Crop. The strength of this nation right now depends almost entirely upon the patriots who keep the plows going and who know no eight-hour day. During the month the corn crop in our terri tory must be planted. The harvest de pends largely upon the time and man ner of planing not only corn, but all crops. Whether corn prices are high or low, the farmer's profit depends on obtaining large acre yields. Large acre yields reduce the expense of both labor and land. See that your seed is good. There is no use in planting poor ?eed. The scarcity of soil moisture in the middle of the summer reduces the com crop more than all other causes combined. The best assurance of a good corn crop is to get moisture into the soil in as large quantities and to as great depth as possible. Do not allow the land to become dry enough before plowing to break up in big clods. If the plowing was not done last fall or winter, disk it before it has a chance to become too dry to plow. Disking is more rapid and should be done before the plowing in order to keep the ground from becom ing too dry. Deep plowing should not be done in the spring. If followed by drought, it causes the land to dry out to greater depths than would result from shallow plowing. To reduce the chances of loss from drought, one or more later plantings should be made. Summer droughts are sometimes broken in time to cause later plantings to yield well. Good seed corn should be in readi ness to make these later plantings as promptly as possible, should droughts or floods injure the early plantings. ? Southern Planter. The United States has arranged to make a loan of $75,000,000 to Bel gium. WISH TO BUY PEAS? W. M. Sanders, Smithficld, N. C. I WANT TO GET A GOOD DITCH er to clean out several hundred yards of ditches at the Waddell place on the Smithfield and Selma road. J. M. Beaty, Smithfield, N. C. FULL LINE OF LEGAL BLANKS for magistrates and lawyers on hand as Herald Office. FOUR CARS OF SODA SHIPPED yesterday from Wilmington ex orders now. Austin-Stephenson Co., Smithfield, N. C. A FEW MORE COPIES OF "THE Story of Europe and the Nations at War" now on sale at The Herald Office. TURNER'S NORTH CAROLINA Almanacs for 1917 now on gale at The Herald Office. Price ten cents ASK FOR YOUR CASH TICKETS at Cotter-Hardware Co., Smithfield, N. C. They are worth 5 per cent. READ "LLOYD GEORGE, THE Man and His Story," price one do lar. An interesting story of the life of one who has risen from lowly beginnings to the chief place in the government of one of the greatest nations in the world. Herald Office. SEE US FOR WrIRE FENCING. We have it in any weight. Cotter Hardware Co., Smithfield, N. C. DONT PUT OFF SCREENING your house ? do it now. Phone us, we have the Screens. Cotter Hard ware Co., Smithfield, N. C. PRINTED STATIONERY ADDS dignity to one's letters. Every farmer should have his farm nam ed and then have his printed letter heads, note heads and envelopes. The Herald Print-shop is ready to do this class of printing on short notice. ASK FOR YOUR CASH TICKETS at Cotter-Hardware Co., Smithficld, N. C. They are worth 5 per cent. SEE US FOR GALVANIZED ROOF ing. We can sell you cheap. Cotter Hardware Co., Smithfield, N. C. SEE US FOR WELL TILING. Cotter Hardware Co., Smithfield, N. C. THE W AR IS ON US AND W E ARE to pay higher taxes, but a man cannot afford to do without his county paper. Renew to-day. SEE US FOR WIRE FENCING. We have it in any weight. Cotter Hardware Co., Smithfield, N. C. A BOOK FOR THE CHILD IS ONE of the finest things you can give him. See our stock of children's books. Herald Office. ASK FOR YOUR CASH TICKETS at Cotter-Hardware Co., Smithfield, N. C. They are worth 5 per cent. Some folks apparently are getting rich with great ease. In fact, they are the ones who commenced By Laying Aside a Fixed Portion of their Income Each Week and depositing it in a reliable bank. Then when opportu nity offered they had the necessary funds for taking ad vantage of it. It Pays to Trade for Cash Good Dress Ginghams 10c Better Dress Ginghams 12 '/2 c Fine Bleaching 12 '/2C Better Quality 13 YiC Good Long Cloth 13 ZiC Good Sea Island 10c Hose for Men, Ladies, Boys arid Girls 10c Ladies' Silk Hose 25c Ladies' Silk Hose, Better tTT 33c Ladies' Silk Hose, original quality 50c Ladies' Silk Hose, original quaiity...= $1.00 We have a large stock of the above. Every customer should get her share. These are but a few of the thou sands of values that we can afford to offer under our Cash System. We pay 25 cents per dozen for eggs in trade. SPIERS BROS. Smithfield, N. C. - BOOKS AT ONE DOLLAR EACH Boys' Life of Mark Twain. Through the Gates of Pearl. Penrod and Sam, by Booth Tarkington. Just So Stories, by Kipling. American Poets and Their Theology. HERALD BOOKSTORE. The Living Voice Columbia records give you the only true, full, actually living reproductions of some of the greatest voices in the world. You hear Fremstad, Garden, Nielsen, Constantino, Sle zak, Zenatello, Seagle, Graveure and a score of other great singers themselves in their COLUMBIA Double-Dine Records Listen to some of these records on a Columbia Grafo nola in our store or else let us send a set to your home on approval.