8MITHFIELD NEEDS: —Bigger Pay Roll. i —A Modern Hotel. —Renovation of Opera House. V —More Paved Streets. —Chamber of Commerce. S.. /* S—-:—v JOHNSTON COUNTY NEEDSi Const; Farm Agent Better Roads Feeding Highways Eqnal Opportunity for Every School Child Better Marketing System More Food and Feed Crops ^ > VOLUME 44—NO. 23 SMITHFIELD, N. C., FRIDAY MORNING, MARCH 19, 1926 .- * - ■ * * $2.00 PER YEAR AroundTheWorld Auto To Be Here Globe Trotting Buick Will Be On Exhibition Tues day In Front of Sundry Shoppe Buick around the world car will arrive in Smithfield Tuesday, Mar. 23 at 9 a. m. The Buick car which has already completed a trip around the world and which is now calling on every Buick dealer in America will reach Smithfield Tuesday, it is announced by Mr. Debnam, local Buick deal er. According to Mr. Debnam the globe trotting Buick circled the world entirely alone without a permanent driver or mechanic, making the trip in less time than that consumed by the Round-the World Fliers. The car was passed from the hands of one Buick deal er to the next entirely around its big circle—some 350 drivers tak ing turns at its steering wheel be fore it returned to New York, its official starting point. The car, a standard six touring model, also completed the trip without need ing a repair or replacement of any part en route, though it had the assurance of Buick authorized ser vice during all of its journey. Ev ery one of its nearly 20,000 land miles was within the sales and service territory of somfe Buick dealer. The trip around the world was planned to demonstrate that a Buick will stand the driving of all kinds of roads. All Buick motor cars have their operating parts, including the engine, “sealed” to protect them from road dirt and . grit.'.—--c—r— Another thing it was desired to prove, according to Mr. Debnam, was that a Buick can go clear out _ to the fringes of the earth and still be safeguarded by the over seas service facilities of Buick. The only special preparation for the trip was the installation of two extra spare tires on the run ning boards—four spare tires al together— and then the installa tion of supplementary oil, gasoline and water tanks also on the run ning boards. These were to carry supplies for the desert miles where filling stations are hundreds »f miles apart instead of every few •hundred yards. An interesting fact about the Round-the-World Buick is that it is a right hand drive. Nearly all Buicks used overseas have the drive on the “starboard” side because ov erseas traffic reverses its position on the road, keeping to the left rather than to the right. The right hand drive was an advantage to the car while it was passing through the hands of its drivers in the eastern hemisphere, but when it returned to America this turned out to be a considerable disadvantage. American drivers arc accustomed to the left hand drive with right hand gear shift ing. Even the best drivers place a considerable strain on gears and clutch when they are forced to shift gears with their left hand and operate the clutch pedal in its un familiar position. One of the most difficult parts of the trip was the long run com pletely across the continent of Australia. Many of the roads on this leg of the trip were almost impassable—mere sheep trails. The globe-circling Buick.j: how Turn to page three, pldhse AUNT ROXIE SAYS— By Me UU 1U&1 UttlHt-'U it 11“ x lit: jjci suit w gel food cake was sho taken in some territory. <$jgg(S| • ... ( Round-the-World Car To Be In Smithfield The Buick car which has com pleted a trip around the world and is now calling on every Buick deal er in America, is scheduled to ar rive in Smithfield next Tuesday morning at nine o’clock. It Started . from New York and before its return 350 drivers had taken turns at the steering wheel. It has trav eled nearly 100,000. Dr. C. E. Burts To Speak At Rally The Forty-Five Baptist Churches of the Johns ton Association Asked To Send Delegates — A rally meeting of unusual in terest to all Baptists of the Johns ton association will be held in the Baptist church of Smithfield next Tuesday. A letter has just b,een received from Dr. C. E. Maddry, State Corresponding Secretary for North Carolina Baptists, in which he says: “Please publish it widely that Dr. C. E. Burts will be with me. Get the women out as I want to talk about their work.” Dr. Burts is Field Secretary at large for the Southern Baptist Conven tion, and a speaker of great abil ity.. The meeting will be a rally for the entire association, and every one of the forty-five churches of the association is urged to have a good delegation in attendance, in cluding representatives of the women's missionary groups and of the B. Y. P'. U. The meeting will begin at 10 o’clock and dinner will be served at the church. With two of the ablest speakers among Southern Baptists on the program it is hoped that an unusually large attendance will be had. Sufficient Enforcement To Hurt It' prohibition enforcement in this country has not proved a suc cess it is because the officers charged with the duty of enforce ment have not been overly-active ;n its performance. The incident of the raid on the hotel in New Bern and on the bootlegger joints is evidence of a previously existing condition of failure in that town. The sudden activities of prohibition enforcement agents in the big town of Cleveland, O., indicates what projection of a little energy into a situation is capable of do ing. Prohibition can be enforced, if the enforcement agencies want to enforce it. The law is not be ing put into effect in manner that conditions justify, but that prohi bition is enveloping the land is manifest in the desperate effort now being made to nullify it. There would not be so muefy howling about the law if it were not hurt ing the interests that are doing the howling.—Charlotte Observer. An Irreparable Loss Sandy McIntosh had just return ed from a trip to the old country. “Ye promised us,” said his youngest son sadly, “that ye’d send us a penny postcard frae Edinburgh, faither, and ye didna do so.” “Aye,” admitted Sandy, "and it was ma ain fault, lad. I went and lost it.” Presbyterians Ask Benevolent Funds Next Sunday Subscrip tions Will Be Taken Throughout North Car olina Synod Leaksville, March 18.—Seventy three thousand members of the Southern Presbyterian Church in the Synod of North Carolina are being asked on next Sunday, Mar. 21st to unite their efforts to raise in subscriptions payable during the coming year the amount of $764, 265 for the benevolent work of this denomination. This amount is to be supplement ed by special subscriptions that are being solicited to the amount of at least $85,819 in an effort to reach a total goal of $850,084. The additional amount was included in the total goal of the Synod but was not recommended as an appor tionment to the churches. In addition to the amounts ask ed of the various churches for be nevolent purposes on next Sunday will include amounts totaling over a million dollars to be used in lo cal self support, the total gifts of the synod for local purposes in the last available reports being almost a million and a half dollars. The benevolent quota of approx imately three quarters of a mil lion dollars goes to the support of the church work in the entire Gen eral Assembly as well as within the bounds of this synod. Outside the Synod there are six causes that share in the apportionment. These are Foreign Missions, As sembly’s Home Missions, Chris tian Education and Ministerial Re lief, Publication and Sunday school Work, the Assembly’s Training School and the American Bible So ciety. These causes have $458,557 as their share. African English “Rastus, who is dat solvent looking gentleman speculating up and down de aisle wid de gold ob stacles?” “Don’t you organize him?” “No, I don’t organize him. Ah's nev*r been induced by him.” “Ise franchise you don’t or ganize him. He’s de mos’ confis cated man in ou,r whole dia phragm. He’s de new pasture at our church.” In and Out “Aren’t you afraid to be out so late at night?” asked the timid batehelor. “You might be held up by an outlaw.” ! “Huh!” snorted his married friend, to whom perils were noth ing. “Think I’d be scared of an outlaw, after living with my in laws for two years?” School Bus Backs Into Raleigh Bus No One Is Hurt; “Granny Horn” Sets Thrifty Ex ample In Sanders Chap el Section Smithfield, Route 2, March 18.— What came near being a serious disaster occurred at Mitchell’s lake Wednesday morning when the school truck driven by Clarence Hill backed into a Raleigh bus trying to avoid being run into by a car driven by a colored man. The axles of the truck were twisted in such a way as to be unsafe to carry the children on. No one was seriously hurt. Miss Rena Hill was \ bruised slightly. The bus driver, was kind enough to take the chil-; dren on to Princeton and the truck was carried to Smithfield for re pairs. Despite the cold weather a three year old peach tree in Mr. J. K. Sanders’ garden that came up from a seed of its own free will and last September was hanging full of ripened fruit estimated a t around three bushels, began blooming the last of February, and is now in half bloom while other trees much ear lier show little* signs of being in bloom for some time yet. Mrs. baran L.awnorn is deserving of being on the honor roll of im provement. Last year in the late spring she bought a share of the late C. S. Powell estate from Mrs. Nona Jordan. She went right to work and built a neat little one room house on it right in the thick woods. But as perseverance is always apt to win she kept everlastingly grubbing up bushes and stumps till now she has a nice little oak grove around her house, a cool pump of water, a pig, earn? hens and & brood of biddies with wing feathers coming. She said j Monday she had just finished clear- j ing about a two acre new ground I ready for the tractor and expected to make around twenty barrels of corn so as to have hog and hom iny at home. She lives alone and seems happy to help her neigh bors when they call on her, then right back to her job of independ ence she goes. Everybody ’that knows “Granny Horn” has nothing but good to say of her, for she at tends to her own business, pays as she goes, and her example is well worth trying out. Mr. Emmitt Price, of Pine Lev el, is in this community hauling logs off his brother-in-law’s land, preparatory to building back his barn that was destroyed by fire last week. Mr. Hill is giving him the timber, which will be a great help to Mr. Price. romona club met today at Mrs. J. E. Woodard’s with the largest attendance of any former meet ing. Pattern designing was [the chief topic of discussion. A pala table dinner was enjoyed about one o’clock. New members were en rolled and the next meeting will be held with Mrs. B. H. Watson. Mr. Calvin Creech had a mule to get hurt mysteriously last Wed nesday. His two mules were loose in the lot. Mr. Creech was working nearby and on hearing a noise in that direction, he looked and saw this mule with feet up, toppling over a high plank wall, falling over on the outside on his back. The mule w*as unable to get up. Dr. Lane was called to attend it The mule is just beginning to walk alone a little, now. The wood-sawing at Mr. Vick Hill’s was largely attended and a nice lot of wood was prepared for heating the church. Butter scotch, caramel, and taffy candy were served toward the close of the eve ning. The music was made by i Messrs. Jim Hill, Calvin Creech and Wiill Creech and was enjoy-' ed. COMEDY Owing to the extremely rough weather, very few people were able to see the comedy, “Bashful Mr. j Bobbs,” that was given by tthe ! faculty of the Meadow High school recently. Therefore we have been asked by many to give this play I again. We have decided to preseht it again on Friday, March 19, at 8 o’clock, in the auditorium of the 1 Meadow high school. This play is filled with comedy from begnining to end. Don’t miss it. Admissionj 15 and 35 cents. Miss Jean Abell Is Smithfield’s Queen Smithfield will be charming ly represented at the Eastern Carolina Exposition which will meet in Greenville April 5-9, Miss Jean Abell having been chosen as Smithfield’s queen, by a secret committee duly ap pointed. Miss Abell is the youngest daughter of Col. and Mrs. E. S. Abell. She gradu ated at Salem College last spring. She is a most attrac tive young woman and is quite popular here. T.C. Young Back From Detroit Never Imagined Anything So Enormous As Ford Plants Says Local Dealer “I certainly learned a lot during the two days I was in Detroit,” T C. Young, local Ford lealer, said yesterday upon his return from the Motor City, where he spent two days visiting the big plants of the Ford Motor Company along with a number of other Ford deal ers from this territory. “It has been a great education to me,” he continued. “I never imagined anything so enormous. “We arrived early in the morn ing, our train being switched right into the yards of the Highland Park plant. Then began an inter esting two days. First, we went through *the Highland Park plant —that is part of it, the most in teresting divisions. You know, they told us that the area of that plantas 278 acres with 105 acres of it under roof. “But that is nothing compared to the River Rouge plant where the big operations are carried on. There is where raw materials are trans formed and come out in the form of parts for Ford cars. “And buildings! Say, you should see the new building for pressed steel operations. That’s a real building, one story high, mostly glass and it covers eight acres of ground. Why if they would clear out the machinery in that building there would be enough room on the floor to park 6,000 Ford cars. “We also visited the big engi neering laboratory at Dearborn, the Ford Airport and the Lincoln car plant. “Things that impressed me most aside from the buildings and ma chines, were the cleanliness about all the plants, the safety devices and methods to prevent accidents and the absence of any real hard human labor. Machinery is made to do all the hard work. * “Naturally, I didn’t have time to get more than a glimpse of this great industrial enterprise,” Mr. Young explained, “in fact two weeks would not have been near long enough really to study even one of the divisions of the con cern. One feature which interested me particularly was the ability of the company to divide an inch into insuring precision. “Every single operation involv ed in producing parts for Ford cars is checked right from the raw materials to the finished product by instruments whose accuracy is in turn checked by Johnasson gages, master standards of accu racy.” Mr. W. F. Isley, of Greensboro, was in the city yesterday on busi ness. BUSINESS INSTITUTE OPENS MONDAY Next Monday Mr. Frank Stockdale will open Smithfield's first Business Institute. The meetings will be held in the courthouse and the sessions will be arranged for the convenience of both employers and employ ees of the various business houses. The school will be along practical lines, and special in terviews will be possible dur ing the week. This institute has possibilities for Smithfield if the business folks will take ad vantage of them. Cooperation should be the watchword. Use R.R. Property For Public Park Selma Woman’s Club Beautifies Grounds Around Station For Park Selma, March 18.—Hhe little park down near the Union station is attracting quite a bit of atten tion. The Southern Railroad com pany gave permission to the Woman’s Club to use a portion of their right-of-way through town for this purpose. Through the un tiring efforts of the club president, Mrs. W. W. Hare, assisted by Mrs. W. H. Poole and Mrs. C. E. Kor negay, the plot has been cleaned up, trees, shrubs and a hedge plant ed. A rustic summer house will be erected by the Boy Scouts direct ed by the Woman’s Club and sup ervised by the scoutmasters, Rev. A. M. Mitchell and Mr. S. W. Arm itage. March 16 was a red letter day for the second year cooking class. Their efforts combined to make one of the most successful dinners ever given by the home economics class in Selma high school. The class met and elected Miss Eunice Tem ple, hostess for the occasion. She proved a very charming hostess. The guests were greeted by Miss Temple in the teachers’ rest room and were entertained there until dinner was announced by Miss Alma Eason, head waitress. The hostess then led the way to the ; dining room which was very pretti ly decorated in green and white. Miss Branham, domestic science teacher, explained to the guests that the dinner was bought, pre pared and would be served by the class. Miss Eunice Temple stated that each plate cost only fifty nine cents. This announcement was followed by short talks from each member of the school board and Professors Waters, Woodlief ana Armstrong, me tame was very attractive with its chain of green smilax down the center and a centerpiece of green carnations. The color scheme of green and white was further accentuated by the use of green candles, green and white mint baskets, containing green mints and the favors wCre green carnations. The following menu was served in six courses, by Misses Alma Eason, Eva Richard son and Georgiana Ashworth: grapefruit and green cherries, cream of pea soup, crotons, cream ed chicken in croustards, tomatoes and cheese, celery, olives, bread and butter sandwiches, potato sal ad in green pepper rings, saltines, jello with whipped cream, frosted cakes, demi tasse, cheese and crackers. After the dinner was over the guests were invited into the kitchen to thank the girls who had been doing their bit to make the dinner a success. They were Misses Louise Slaughter, Ethel Wall and Sadie Stancil. The spot less kitchen came in for a share of the praise that the guests lav ished on the class and their very efficient teacher, Miss Clell Bran ham, who has had charge of this department for {four years. The guests were the board of trustees and the entire school faculty, about thirty being present. Miss Annie Laurie Hare very charmingly entertained about fifty of her little friends and school mates at the home of her parents, Mr. and Mrs. W. W. Hare, on Railroad street Friday afternoon, the occasion being the celebration of her eighth birthday. G^mes, songs and stories dear to the hearts of children filled the happy afternoon hours. In an exciting con test little Miss Delilah Walden won the prize. Refreshments consisting j of block cream in white and green ' and decorated cakes were served [in the daintily appointed dining jroom. The centerpiece for the ta • ble was a large white cake bear ing eight *tiny green tapers. The little guests went home wishing their hostess many more happy birthdays. The Reason Why Salesman: “Gan I sell you a vac uum cleaner?” Lady: “No, we have no vacuum to clean.”—AUston (Mass.) Re corder. LIKED IN ARMY SET The charming Mrs. James r. oppal, wife of the personal physi-, •1 all to President Coolldge, is a popular member of the army sat In the national capital. Princeton Band To Give Concert Public Performance To Be Given at School Au ditorium Next Sundry Afternoon Princeton March 16.—The Prince ton band was the great attraction, at the auditorium last Friday eve ning at the meeting of the Par ent-Teachers association and al though the evening was very dis agreeable and cold there were more 'than six hundred present.. Mr. Maxton Wells, with trombone and Miss Lelia Straughn at the piano were the first on the program. T!he Tee Chapel choir was on for* ! a couple of songs which all seemed j to enjoy. The band as at present organized is composed of the fol I lowing members, with the instru ment they are playing: Mr. Max ton Wells, instructor, playing a trombone; Ur. hrank Aycock, Mr. R. W. Etheridge, Wilbert Wiggs and Carlyle Woodard, cornets; Dr. Lester Aycock and Osborn Mason, j trombone; Henry Holt, alto sax^. aphone; Harvey Pearce, alto horn; Earl Watson, baritone horn; S. G. j Fail, bass horn; Albert Edwards, snare drum; Carl Williamson, bass drum. The band will give a concert next Sunday evening from 3 to 5 parents in the Princeton schlool tin the school auditorium. All the district are especially invited to j come out and bring everyone of their children.Everybody is invit ed. There are only eleven hundred j seats. Doors open at 2:15. Come | early if you want a seat. I Miss Minnie Lee Garrison, coun ty home agent entertained the la dies for a few minutes last Friday night on the subject of nutrition land the art of preparing those [dishes which are good to eat as well as beautiful to look at. Miss Pearl Toler was the guest of Miss Irene Franks in Raleigh for the week end. Miss Stella Mason has gone to Richmond, Va., where she will vis it her sister. j Mrs. F. M. Aycock, Misses Ethel Royster, Lelia Straughn, Nora j Mae Holmes and Frances Hunter visited in Goldsboro Tuesday. Dr. Ralph Stevens went to Bur lington Wednesday. , Mr. Ed Peterson and Guy Lee, from Smithfield, were visitors in town Sunday. Misses Edna Grantham and La vee Massey visited in Greenville Saturday. | Misses Lila Stuckey and Lora Mason and Mr. Clarence Whitley spent the week end in Durham. Mr. and Mrs. R. E. Barnett went to Burlington Sunday on ac count of the serious illness t# his father. Mr. and Mrs. Osborn Mason vis ited in Raleigh Sunday. Miss Frances Ledbetter spenjt the week end at Chapel Hill. Try This Motor Cop (after hard chase)— “Why didn’t you stop when I shouted back there?” Driver (with only five dollars, but presence of mind)—“I thought you just said, ‘Good mornnig, Sen ator.’ ” Cop—“Well, you see, Senator, I wanted to warn you about driving jfast through the next township.” George Pou Gives Opinion On Crime Tell# Collier’s Weekly That Criminal Tenden« cies Begin At Age of Puberty , Raleigh, March 12—Collier’s Weekly today asked Superintend ent George Ross Pou, of the state’s prison, for an expression of opinion as to the cause of the tremendous increase in crime. Mr. Pou is rated by former1 Gov ernor Cameron Morrison among the best superintendents in the country. The fact that revenues have been light in recent years hag satisfied the reformers th^t de spite the original purposes^ of the prison to make money, the pres tent head is not running it to that end. The reply to Collier’s Weekly is a shade sermonic. Collier’s asked this: “What from your knowledge of prison inmates is lacking in train ing of youth to account for in creasing crimes of violence? This query is being addressed to all su perintendents of state and federal prisons. Please reply by- wire col lect.” In reply Superintendent Pou wir ed as follows: “Your wire. Criminal tenden cies are, in my opinion, formed during the age of puberty. My five years' experience as superintendent of the state prison departments of this state convinces me that the largest contributing cause to the alarming increase in juvenile de linquency is due to improper sup ervision and discipline of children by parents which is often traceable to-ignorance or indulgence of par ents.” in ^superintended Pous mail, ’today came a nicely cooked layer cake and with it the following message: “Accept this as a token of grat itude for what you are doing for my grandson. This cake cooked by his mother.” Superintendent Pou stated that he was particularly appreciative as the mother of this prisoner who prepared the cake, is deaf and dumb. His grandmother, who wrote the note, is a fine motherly old lady who lives in a town near Ral eigh. “Of the numerous trinkets and curios which I have received from the .prisoners, their friends and rel atives in token of appreciation for what we are trying