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(Ujc JJmttljfelit jHeralit 46th Year of Publication Established 1882 Published every Tuesday and Friday morning at 111 14 Court House Alley. Entered at Smithfield, N. C., Postoffice as second class matter. MRS T. J. LASSITER .. Editoi W. M. GASKIN . Business Manager T. J. Lassiter Estate, Mrs. T. J. Lassiter and \V. M. Gaskin, Owners Telephone 10—All Departments SUBSCRIPTION RATES: By mail, all subscriptions strictly payable in advance. 1 Year . $2.00 3 Months .50 0 Months ..... 1.50 1 Month ..25 Months... 1.00 Single copy.05 (Advertising Rates Furnished Upon Request) NOTICE TO SUBSCRIBERS Look at the printed dabel on your paper. The date thereon shows when the subscription expires. Forward your money in ample time for renewal. Notice date on label carefully, and if not correct, please notify us at once. Subscribers desiring the address on. their paper changed, please state in their communication both the OLD and NEW address. NATIONAL ADVERTISING REPRESENTATIVE American Press Association, New York CitV. TUESDAY MORNING, MARCH 27, 1928 _ _ f * TWO REQUISITES—PEACE AND A PLATFORM^— The year of oei j- Lord 1928 is an election year, and the June primary! la 'barely more5 than two months away; but judging l)y a general apathy that prevails among the citizens of this county, one would never 'realize these truths. In fact, thei 6nly appearance1 of miy kino of a political ripple that we (liive thus fsrr<>*^'£*driras. the assembling of a small spijipkle of the^Repdblican office holders of two years ago and ja; fevt Wocrkl-he office holders at the present time who were seen here in conference last week. Of course other meetings may be taking place from time to time, but they have not come to public notice. It is time that public attention should be awakening to the work before our people between now and the November election. Johnston County is no longer a mere handful of people who requireVlittle or no government outside of that' which it Would feceive as a natural result of the orderly movement*! of the state and national government. The county Ink grown and grown until it is-past the fifty thou. sandth pol* and any kind of a government instituted for such a mass of .people should be carefully and cautiously devised and administered. And now that the shaping of a-campaign is nigh at hand it behooves the best “thinkers as well as the best actors to get together and formulate some definite platform,.upon which the party will ask the support of the people at! the polls at the next election. .The Democrats in the last election were so busily engaged in ousting the Re publicans, who -were then in power in Johnston County, that they did not devote as much time and attention to a platform and to needed changes in'county government as perhaps they should have done, and this is a condition that should not be allowed to occur again this year. There will be time a plen ty, and time should be taken to prepare carefully a platform for our people. The people have a right to know', and they ought to know, what the party expects to do by way of leg islation when the representatives meet in Raleigh early in next year. No doubt there are numerous other things that should harye the careful consideration of the people, all of which should be,, thoroughly outlined and discussed during the days between this and election day. The Hei-ald has always strived and it is still striving to be a thoroughly Democratic paper, and no individual would de plore the defeat of the party at the coming election with more sincere regret than ^vould. this publication. We now’, therefore, return t6‘ trie seftie stand we’ took two years ago when thj ^Democratic Party Vas out of po\ver in Johnston County ai)d the Republican party was in control of public affairs. We preached then and so we again preach the gos pel of harmony among our ranks. We believe that the de feat of t||e party four years ago was caused primarily by dissensiotf among members of the Democratic party, and we believe that the hope of success in the coming campaign will depend more largely upon peace and harmony than upon any other' one ingredient' that can become a factor in the campaign, We are not, directly or indirectly, championing the causeiof any candidate or set of candidates, but we are going to "contend for our convictions on one point. If within the eomirfg two m&nths the Democrats are to work up a strong filling of rivalry against this office Bidder or that of fice holder, or if the ones themselves who enter the primary for nominations to any orte .of the various' offices become embitteafed or estranged from the united ranks of the Demo cratic p^rty, the cause will be weakened and the ticket that is named by the June primary will enter, the lists against the Republicans in a badly crippled plight. However, one of the tenets (^..democracy is that elections should be free and this applies ias much to primaries as it does to general elections. Therefore, every man and every woman throughout the county,Vif he or she has any of the common qualifications for offices is certainly entitled to put his hat or her bonnet into the ring for whatever office he or she may desire; and this paper guarantees to such a candidate that no word of opposition to their decisien will ever find place in these columns. We want to see the Democratic party win the coming election?;and this desire has moved us to take the stand that we took two years ago when we were on the offensive instead of the defensive as we must ap pear this year. The best route to success is by the adoption of a sensible, workable platform strict ly edjusted to our need’s and by the maintenance of peace among our ranks. ANOTHER INTERESTING LETTER FROM R. II. ALFORD To the Editor: I haven't written you in quite a while for fear you and your read ers would tire of seeing so much from my versatile (?) pen. How ever, I will venture again, as I have a few items that might be of interest. I haven't been ke2ping notes, so if I should tell some thing twice, you can attribute it to bad memory. Some time ago we visited the museum of science and arts. Like the National Museum at Washington. It would take days to see it all in detail; they have quite a collection of oriental tapes try, rugs. Egyptian mummies, etc., also a collection of beautiful sculp tural work. Later we went to the Museum of Natural History, it be ing also very interesting. It is used principally by the schools while the children are studying history. You can see teachers taking whole giades through it which must be very helpful to the children while studying this subject. Another thing that might be of interest to the American Legion, is the way they have memoralizod the Cleveland boys who died or were killed during service. They have three beautiful parks, (in fact it is really one large park but the different sections are known by diffront names). Bordering on Lake Erie is Gordon, then Wade and Rockefeller. They extend about three miles from the Lakeand run ning through them is a pretty brook, with its banks walled up with rock to a uniform width, fol lowing the windings of this stream S a beautiful boulevard and along >y this boulevard they have set roes; one for each soldier that »vas killed in action or died in the service. By each tree is a block of granite about seven inches square above the ground, and a bronze plate about three inches in diame ter on to}) with the soldier’s name engraved on it. You often see wreaths of flowers around the tree, or leaning against it, placed there by relatives or friends. We saw and heard Ruth Elder several weeks ago, when she ap peared in one of the theatres here. Wc had seats close-up and could hear all she .said, describing the flight, and giving her experience. She said before the flight she had been a little negligent about say ing her prayers, but that night she caught up, and must have quite a number to her credit in advance. She is very attractive, but was suf fering from stagefright. She ap peared to be very timid. She is a typical Southern girl. I wonder if you are having nice spring weather as usual at this time of year, while we are still in dead of winter, in snow and ice and burning coal? I saw a nice load of wood yesterday, the first I have ?een here. It looked good, seemed like I ought to go out and buy it. or make him an offer at least. It kinder makes me homesick to think of the pretty snnshfhy days you are having and planting gar dens, flowers, etc. With best wishes, R. H. ALFORD, Cleveland, O., March 19. regarding eight MONTH? SCHOOLS I t may seem paradoxical for a tear her who was reared in the country, who has the interest of the country community at heart, and who wants the country chil dren to have opportunities equally as pood as the town children to write against an eight-months school. However, after reading all this article, possibly many will agree with the writer. ...First, many children cannot at tend eight months. How can a crop bo made and housed in four months? Where there are large families the children have to do much of the farm work. When cir cumstances require it the welfare officer allows the children to stay out a few weeks, possibly a month or more. This causes much loss of time by the regular attendants. The teacher has to take time to help those who enter late, and thus cause the whole class to move more slowly-, unless the late ones are un usually blight or ambitious and voluntarily make up the grond covered by the others. Even in these cases they need help. Another difficulty caused by the iregularity of attendance is that it lowers the yearly average so Dr,Frank Crane Says! ETERNAL CHILDREN Somebody said that a man has four ambitions: to plant a tree, write a hook, to build a house u< -I to beget a son. There is somethirjg -(peculiarly satisfying to a man when he has a son. It may be a survival of the '•Id feeling that one must have an heir to inherit his estate. In China they sometimes drown the girl babies because they do not want so many girls around, and prefer boys. The affection between a man and his son is peculiarly tender. It is not the same kind of feeling that he has for his wife or for his daughter.’ Somehow the son seems to carry on his own personality and when he looks at him he feels that his life has not been in vain. A man at a banquet the other day got up and said: “I am lonely. Nearly every man here tonight has his son with him. I have only the memory of mine*” Then he disclosed the fact that iiis son was somewhere in France either in an unmarked grave or lying L’nidentified near some wire fence or in a ditch. The father wanted to go, he was too old; they wanted young men. the son never came back. It may be a faint consolation, but thi boy has one advantagd”in that he will always be a boy. \V<- lose our childdren in t'v0 ways. They either die or grow up. In either case they separate from us. The eternal chidren are the ones who die. They always linger in our memory as children. We ex pect to see them in the next world as chidren. They will always be chidren. But those who grow up and de velop their own personality and in dividuality swing away from us. Perhaps after all the loneliest Person is the one who has seen hi.; lovdd ones grow away from him, rathe- than the one who has lost them by death. The latter lias them always with him in his memory, hut to the for mer memory is clouded by the reality. that the .school doesn’t get enough teachers to do justce to the pupils when all do enter. Even in cases where extra teacners are employ ed when the attendance increases, there has to he a hitting around and re-classification of pupils which is not at all satisfactory, nor best for their steady progress. •Not only arc the brighter pupils losing time while the teacher tries to help the late comers, but they are acquiring habits of idleness and inattention. The supervisors say give them extra work. But with a class of forty or more, so’11’’ regular attendants, some not, and with all degrees of mental ability, ambition, and interest, it requires more genius and ingenuity than most of us possess to keep all properly occupied, El till the pupils could come re gularlv for six months and have a sufficient number of conscien tious teachers who would teach the re , tired hours and eliminate the nonessentp.ils, more and better I work could be done in six months I than is in many cases, being done jin eight. Some things needed in '•tty schools are not only useless in country schools but detriment jul. 1'or instance, a few days ago 1 ! heard a mother say her girls came home so tired and sore from the exercises in school that they did not (eel like doing some easy work which was needed to be ‘done an the farm after school hours, j it, in the same school, some must go eight months, some seven, and some only six, there should be a different system of promotions. As it now stands the child who stops a month or two before school closes or enters a month later, has either to miss much of the grade work and enter a higher grade poorly prepared, or repeat the pre vious year's work at a great loss ol time. Many lack only a little of finishing the work, and, while not prepared for a higher class, are far ahead of the ones who will come up from a lower grade. In some cities-they have promo tions every two or three months, allowing the bright pupls to pro gress steadly, and the backward ones or the rregular ones to re peat only a few months’ work un less necessary to be further re tarded. Of course, we could not have such an elastic system in the j smaller schools, hut there might bo some arrangements made whereby promotions could he made oftener ! than once a year without a pupil having to leave out so much of the course or repeat the same work year after year. \\ by not require every grade in schools where the attendance is so irregular to have two sections, one beginning at the first of school and the other three or four months later? Some teach ers insist on having only one sec tion. When the present scholars and leaders were in school their teachers had many grades and sections and did efficient work as is evidenced by the great men taught by them. Why can’t good work be done in our schools of to day with smaller and better classi fied grades? More individual at tention could be given and better results obtained. Let the country schools have more teachers and the best teach ers that can be secured, if you have to shorten our terms to do so- TEACHER. She: “Are you very busy right now, Mr. Barber?’’ He: “Yes, I’m scraping an ac quaintance.” “He-male voters will smell mo’ powdar ef dey don’ see any mo’ bloodshed in pollyticks.” RE-INTRODUCING AN OLD FRIEND OF THE FAMILY Radio Talk Given By National Dairy Council t Did you know that they are go ing to add a new animal to the zoo in New York City? No, it is not a longer boa constrictor from South America, or a new kind of ant-eat er from Africa or a baby seal from the Artie Ocean, but it is a natur alized American who has never been included in a zoo collection be fore. It’s family name on the zoo records will be BOS. Although the new resident may not know just what will be expected of her in the way of etiquette, being used to green pastures and plenty of grassy spaces, she probably will get some “asides” on the subject frbm her distant relatives—the bison and yak. In being recognized by scientists as a zoo specimen, the ordinary ev ery day cow assumes new interest and we begin -to ask ourselves a lot of questions, to see just how well we do know her. 1 wonder how many of you could get 100 on these ten questions which have been compiled by the National Dairy Council. Because I won*! be able to hear any answers and because I am rather sure ’a few of your answers, at least, would be wrong, I am going to an swej* each question myself. First, what* is the average age of the cow? Alia. Ihe cow does not live quite as long as the horse; 13 or 15 years is the average age. Q. What cow lived the longest? A. The bovine wonder of the world is old Grannie, recorded as No. 1 in the Aberdeen-Angus Herd Book. She had 25 calves, the last one in her 29th year, and finally died at the old age of 36. And here’s a new riddle: Q. How is the cow like the deer and unlike the sheep in her food habits? A. When the ground is snow-cov ered, the cow eats twigs like the deer and does not paw the snow away like the sheep, trying 'to reach the grass underneath. Q. What cow produced the most milk? A. The world’s record is held by Segis Pieterje Prospect, a Holstein cow, who in three years produced more than 56 times her own weight in milk. In one year she produced 430 gallons. Q. What cows are named for the islands from which they come? A. Jersey and Guernsey. These are two lovely little islands off the coast of Great Britain. Q. What color were the first cows? A. A few specimens of wild cat tle still seen in Europe show that they are larger than the domesti cated cows and usually pure white with brown or black ears. (I guess no zoologist has yet discovered a purple cow in spite of the poetry Tobacco Flues! Give us your order for your Tobacco Flues. Mr. Lida Lee is with us to make Flues, and he has had lots of experience in Flue making and we’re amply pre pared to serve you at Stephenson’s Garage Four Oaks, N. C. He Means Business= By Albert T. Prill | ANY CHAHCc OP FARM SUPPORT rfirilr Charge it tc THEM SUYS.-CAP \ CHARGE IT, !HE EVE/- , f I6ET5 SUMTHlti 'SUSSrAKTlAt BETORE YE GETS BY ME irrrmr.-'V written about her.) And thinking how she keeps her ears clean gives us our next ques tion: Q. How does the cow wash her face ? A. She doesn’t. Her best cow friend does it for her. A cooperative ar rangement for face washing seems to be arranged by mutual consent, enjoyed by both the owner of the face and the user of the tongue. Q. Do the horse and the cow get up from the ground in the same way ? A. No. The horse gets up direct ly on his front hoofs first. The cow lifts her forequarters on the elbows, places her hind feet on the ground, and lifts her back, and then gets up on her front feet. Q. How long does the cow chew her cud? A. Each cud or regurgitation of an unchewed grass is given 50 to 75 strokes of the teeth before swallowed and replaced by a new portion. The younger the cow the faster she chews. Several hours a day are consumed in this task. Q. Why is the cow man's best animal friend? A. From her the world gets the nearest perfect food for grown-ups as well as children. Straight bones and strong teeth, as well as energy for work and play depend on our drinking milk. Cheese, butter and ice cream are important and good tasting foods which could not be enjoyed without the milk the cow gives. in view oi the cow s being man’s best animal friend, it is a fitting tribute that she should be given a little advertising by the zoo au thorities to that city children can learn that the quart bottle of milk left on their doorsteps did not come from the Milky Way. Can’t you imagine little Johnny who has been born and raised in the shadow of skyscrapers and the rumble of elevateds far away from green pasture lands where cows graze, being quite excited when he sees his first cow? You are probably fa miliar with that poem, which might have been written to describe this meeting: “My pa held me up to the Moo Cow-Moo, So close I could almost touch, And I fed her a couple or two, And I wasn’t a scardy cat—much”. IS CANCER CONTAGIOUS? In spite of the fact that physi cians and nurses have come into intimate contact with cancer pa tients for so many years and tak en no precautions against infect ing themselves there is no record ed instance of one case of cancer giving rise to another. This is not to say that microbes are never found in cancers. Dis coveries are announced from time to time that bacteria have been identified with cancer, but upon fulL and impartial investigation it is al ways found that these parasites have been invaders of the cancer growth, followers rather than pro ducers of the malignant condition. Cancers often become infected with such microbes as infect the wounds of any kind and the un pleasant odors which are somtv times associated with cancer are due to these accidental contamina tions. Consequently the precautions to be taken by those who come in contact with cancer patients are only such as should be followed with infected wounds. There is no occasion to shun a person who has cancer, so far as danger of contracting the disease is concerned. The victims need all the sympathy and tenderness that can be shown them. Fear that can cer is contagious has some times led to unnecessary and unchari table action toward the sick. CAN "BATTLING NELL” R EFORM POLIT!Cl A N S ? Some of the newspapers ex pressed fea,' that the political bee would tend to take from “Rattling Nell” Lewis some of the boldness which she had heretofore shown in her “incidental' remarks in the Raleigh News and Observer. And one of her rer.de.—. lises to remark that it alreadv has happened. “Misc Lewis has tan::1 i down considera bly since she became a candidate for political office,’ said a Dunn rean recently. Commentin ; on the campaign of Miss Lewis, tr.'; Fayetteville Ob server ends an editorial by saying, “It remains to be seen whether ‘Rattling Nell’ will stand by her guns or join the time-worn and weather-beaten office seekers, whose words mean one thing and whose actions mean another.” In the past Miss Lewis has dis played more nerve than is usually shown by one politically inclined. She has not hesitated to “sting” the political leaders when they did not do just as Miss Lewis would have them do, and they seldom have seen fit to meet her demands. 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