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THE SMITHF1ELD HERALD Published Every Tuesday and Friday. BEATY & LASSITER Editors and Proprietors, Smithfield, N. C. RATES OF SUBSCRIPTION: Cash in Advsnre. One year. $1.50 Eight Months, 1.00 Six Months. .75 Three Months, .40 Entered at the Post Office at Smith field, Johnaton County, N. C., an Second-clasa Matter. tiif; big things of a county. No county can ever become really great which does not recognize and conserve its greatest assets. The agricultural interests of a county and people are great and no county in a rural district can ever become great that neglects the devel opment of its farms. The industrial interests of a county I should never be neglected. Big cotton mills and other manufacturing enter prises are big things in the building up of a community. The roads and highways are mighty developing agencies in our rural life, and important as they are, they are ^ not the biggest things. i The banks and the stores and the ( shops are of great importance to any county or community, but there are greater things than these. i The churches and the Sunday schools have a most important part to play in the development of a county and without them no county or com niunity can become great in the best sense of the term. But after all, the biggest things we have are our children. They are the greatest assets any county, State or ' Nation ever had. They are the stuff 1 men and women are made of. They are the stuff from which statesmen and diplomats and preachers are made. No county can ever become jrreat, it matters not what else it may have, if it neglects its children, or in other words, it can never rise to the heights within its reach if it fails to give to its children the very best opportunities it can afford. And its best opportunities are not meas ured by political expediency. The de mands of the times, the rights of the child to have lie best? these are I higher .and better than the expedien cies or the exigencies of politics. Those in authority must observe the rights of the child and conserve those rights. This is a great day of conser vation and conservation can be turn ed in many ways. There are possi bilities before our children which only the county and the State can con serve. The County Board of Education of Johnston County is asking for more money in order that the children of Johnston County may have the best possible opportunities to develop their minds and their lives. The teachers are the poorest paid of any members of any of the professions. They are paid lower salaries than printers, plasterers, carpenters and a dozen other trades. When we come to build a barn even, we pay the man who builds it a higher average daily wage than is the average paid the teachers of the State. When we want a printer we have to pay him a larger salary per year than the average high school jrincipal in North Carolina gets. These are just a few compari sons. ? ? ? But when we come to employ the man or the woman who must have charge of our children five to six hours a day during the most plastic period of their lives, we are not wil ling to pay them as much as carpen ters and printers get. Wo are con tent to take anybody we can get so he comes cheap. This policy is not riirht. It ia not just. And the reason that it is so hard to get those in au thority to plan for us to have more I money for our schools is because the rank and the file, those who need it most, do not rise up in their might and demand it. If the County Board of Education of John.'ton County needs more money for the proper con duct of the public schools of this great and rich county the Board of County Commissioners should be proud of the opportunity that comes to it to do a bigger and better work in the building up of the schools of this county. The amount the Board I has l>ecn asked for is but little and I will not be felt much by any one. But I it will greatly aid the schools of the . county. ? ? ? Once there was a County Supcrin teudent of Schools who had a vision of bigger and better things for the children of his county. He laid his plans before his Board of Education. This Board was big enough to see the need and it proposed to ask for an increase of the taxes for the public schools. On the first Monday in July when this man's term of office ex pired he went before the Board of County Commissioners and asked for an increase in the tax rate for the schools. But there was a man on that board who was "agin" it. He was the spokesman for the board on that oc casion, and the firr.t thing he did was to ask the Superintendent if he did not know that the move he was mak ing was going to cause him to lose his position as the head of the schools of his county. This Superintendent rose up and really looked bigger than he was when he said that he was not asking anything for himself, but ie was begging for the little children >f that great county, that the county lid not owe him one cent but that it lid owe much to the children of the ounty. * * * The spokesman for the County Commissioners then turned to the rounty attorney and asked if the >oard must levy the tax. He was an swered in the affirmative and that ward of commissioners had to give hat county more money for schools n spite of themselves. ? * * And what became of the County ?Superintendent who had the temerity 0 ask that more money be raised to rive the children of his county bet er schools? Did he lose his job? Mo. He still holds it. He was then retting about fifteen hundred dollars 1 year as county superintendent. Now, we are told, he is petting a salary of twenty-five hundred a year snd the schools of his county are go ing forward with a new impetus. The school man had a vision that was bigger than his own job or his own salary and he dared to speak for the children. The men who were afraid to give him what he asked, finally did it under protest, but the good work went on and the pro at party then in power in that great county is ?till in power. It has even grown stronger because its representatives, who were the representatives of the people, dared to do right. ? ? ? The Board of Education of John ston under the leadership of Supt. Royall is askinp for more money to run the schools of Johnston County because it is sorely needed. The law says that when the County Board of Education asks for a special tax to pive the necessary term of school in every district in the county that the Board of County Commissioners shall grant the increase and levy the taxes asked for. The Board of Commissioners of Johnston County is composed of pood stronp men, men of pood judg ment and men of pood business qual ifications. That they will prant the request of the Board of Education poes without sayinp. The Government crop report just issued promises an increased produc tion. Now all topether for the con servinp of these products. M |{. AKCHKK'S promotion. News comes from Greensboro that Mr. Frederick Archer, who has been Superintendent of Selma (traded I Schools for the past four years, has been chosen Superintendent of the City Schools of Greensboro at a sal ary of $2,400 a year. He has accept ed the position and will leave John ston County to become associated with the schools of the live county of Guilford and the progressive city of Greensboro. The Herald rejoices with Mr. Archer in the great suc cess that has come to him as an edu cational leader of the State, but on the other hand we very much regret to ee the county lose its ablest school man. His going from us is a distinct loss to the educational interests, not inly of the town of Selma and com munity, but to the great county of John-ton. He was a recognized lead er here, and a real leader never long remains unknown to other sections. Mr. Archer has wrought well and the handsome graded school building at Selma and the fine school system he has established there are living mon uments to his worth end work in the educational life of Johnston County. Our loss is Greensboro's and Guil ford's gain. That he will prove a worthy successor to the fine men who have headed Greensboro's schools in the past is not doubted by any who know Mr. Archer. He is reckoned as one of the educational leaders of the younger men in the school work and has great possibilities before him. AIRPLANES AND AVIATORS. The supreme need of the hour, ac cording to our English cousins, is a large supply of airplanes and avia tors. The German airplane raid over London Saturday morning in which nearly two score people, non-com batants, were killed and more than one hundred injured shows the great importance of being ready for the ruthless invaders. This is the seventh raid over London within the past two months and shows how daring the German airmen are. They must be met, not only by a force as large and well trained, but the Allies must have double or triple the number of airplanes and aviators that the Ger mans have to make the war in the air more effective. Here is where America can come in. The people of London are furi ous over the raid of Saturday morn ing, feeling that the authorities are not properly safe-guarding the de fenseless ones. The raiders came fly ing low and slowly, says the press dis patches, and were twenty minutes passing over the city. The protectors of the city were evidently taken by surprise, or they would have inflicted greater injury to the enemy planes than the dispatches indicate. With the number of attacks made on the great city within the past few weeks, it seems that a large force of air craft defenders ought to be on guard every hour and be prepared to in flict great damage on the airplanes of the enemy when they make their appearance. TO HELP OURSELVES FIRST. i In a proclamation issued the ! President Sunday night the gdvern inent's policy was shown to be help ourselves first, then give all the aid possible to the Allies, and then if we have anything to spare*, help the suffering neutrals. The time has come when America must sec to it that the Central powers get no aid from us in , the way of supplies through neutral countries or otherwise. The instruc tions to the neutrals now are "Do not let Germany have anything we send you or you will have to go hungry." Now if these countries love Germany so much, or stand so much in fear of her, that they must divide what they get from America with Germany, the time will soon bo here when what they get from America will not amount to much. America is fighting now for world liberty and it is the highest duty of the nation to-day to see that no help shall in any way go out from us to the enemy nations. We are making and conserving food that we and our allies may not go hungry while the battle is in the balance. And every t me a neutral country furnishes food t (i rnr.iny because America has fur r; ;hed it, there is a weak spot in our j y, and that is what the Presi dent is trying to guard against. The commodities which will be put in tne list bill under control will be <? ?, fuels, oil, kerosene, gaso line, food grains, flour and meal, fod d, r and feeds, meats and fats, pig i. m and steel billets, arms, ammuni tion- and explosives and many other things necessary to conserve at this time to strengthen our position. THE UPHEAVAL IN CHINA. Whatever else China may he the ! old sleepy nation of the East is able to keep in the lime-light. For the past five or six years not many weeks pa- that China does not get front pji e position in the big newspapers. Last week the news came out of the East that the friends of the young 11 sun Tung had been placed on the throne of the old empire by General Chang Hsun. The former President of the so-called republic, abdicated and placed himself in the hands of the young emperor and begged him to punish him for assuming to rule the great Chinese Empire, even though he was forced into the responsible position by the army. But now another story comes out of the East to the effect that the young emperor, Hsun Tung, has ab dicated, finding the throne rather shaky. The republican forces have defeated the emperor's army and he is seeking to flee with all hope of escape cut off, if the press reports are founded on truth. On top of all these reports comes a delayed message from Tokio that the whole affair is brought about by Ger man intrigue. No one doubts it. It hus long been seen that the German is ready for anything that will upset a republican form of government. Wherever there is a nation enjoying liberty and freedom German intrigue is found also. The old Roman orator whese constant cry "Carthage must be Destroyed" finally brought victory to his people. The cry today must be changed to "Germany must be De stroyed." The safety of the freedom if the world demands it. VIOLENT REACTION IN COTTON. Few people, says Dun's Review of last Saturday, looked for a break of 275 points in the cotton market last week. Sharp recovery occurred Fri day and there was little net change from the closing figures of June 30th. Most of the previous shakedown of prices, says the New York financial paper, was experienced before the holiday, with all the new crop deliv eries dropping 150 points on Monday alone, and a Washington dispatch announcing that the Senate had de cided to add the southern staple to the list of commodities to be con trolled by the government was re sponsible for the spectacular move ment. On Thursday the lowest levels were established at 24.75 for July cotton. The local New York spot quo tation slumped to 25.45c., or a loss of nine dollars a bale. Dun's Review further says: "General improvement throughout most of the cotton region was indi cated by the Government's regular weekly bulletin, and talk about the crop is not quite so pessimistic now it was a while ago. Yet Monday's flficial estimate, which was overshad owed by other news from Washing ton, showed the prospect condition on record for this period, though it was a trifle higher than a month ago, 70.3 per cent against 69.5. As ex pected. the acreage figures disclosed a small decrease, about 4 per cent, and th? prospect on June 25 was for a yield of not much more than 11, 600,000 bales, excluding lintcrs." Reunion of Johnson Family. ? '-T&3 On July 19th, the family and fam ily connections of Mrs. Elizabeth Johnson, of Meadow township, John ston County, will hold a reunion at the old homestead now the home of Mr. J. C. Johnson. All family con nections and friends of the family are cordially invited to he present with a well filled basket and enjoy the reunion. Several hundred are ex pected. Very truly, J. C. JOHNSON. The Comforts and even Luxuries of Life are easy of attainment by Youth in its Vigor. But what about Old Age? 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