Use Want Ads If you have anything to acll a Want Ad will find yon a buyer, quickly, cheaply. VOLUME 46—NO. 30 E»tabli«hed 1882 * * Tell Your Friends If they don’t read the Herald they won’t see all the Johnston Connty happenings. $2.00 YEAR—5c SINGLE COPY y Arthur Brisbane s A REVIVAL OF HOPE— | PROSPERITY FOR FARMERS— j IMPORTANT “CROP NEWS”— i NATURE’S WISDOM— [ There is revival of the hope that | President Coolidge will consent to run for a second election this year. Everybody knows he meant it when he said “I do not choose.” Every body knows he means it when he says now he does not 'frant any of his friends to lift a finger to nom inate him. But the oil scandal makes a dif ference in the situation, and every one of intelligence reserves the right to change his mind. Cotton “pickers and strippers” replacing human fingers with ma hjjtfnery, are now working in north -western Texas. This is good news. Prosperity for farmers depends on machinery, on doing with the earth’s products what Ford, first, did with automo hilp*. In the Gary rolling mill half a dozen men roll out steel rails that ten thousand could not have pro duced with old sledge hammer methods. No human hand touches the iron, until a tall young Scan dinavian runs his keen blue eye along the finished rail and signals another man, who straightens it. Machines dig the ore, put it in ships, unload it, handle it, cold | and hot. Six men, some day, will run a 1,000 acre farm, and multiply its crops by ten. Don’t worry about over-population. The infant death rate is down in Pennsylvania and New York. And that’s the most important “crop news” this year. If only civilization took as much Interest in babies as it does in young calves, pigs, boll weevils and corn borer. Consider Nature’s limitless fe cundity. Mr. Ringling shows you this year a sea-elephant weighing four tons that eats 5 per cent of his weight, or 400 pounds of herrings at one meal. Any one of a dozen fishes in one generation would fill all the oceans and seas of the world solid with fish if they and their descendants all survive. The elephant, on the other hand, lives a hundred years and only has two or three chil dren at most. Wise nature. Canada has hanged George Mc Donald, forger, confidence man and murderer. His young wife, saved from the rope by public appeals, sent him word, “I shall never cease praying for you.” She, poor wo man, will have time to keep that promise in her life imprisonment. In Canada it MEANS life impris ! onment. *'v Sparing that woman is a step toward civilization. Once thousands a year were hanged for pettty • crimes. Hence the expression, “As > well be hanged for a sheep as a v lamb.” Children were hanged and quartered in Franklin's childhood. | “Civilization” has stopped hang ing children, and gradually will llstop hanging women, and finally TURN TO PAGE 3 Tantalizer There are exactly enough let ters in the line below to spell the name of a person in Smith field or Johnston county, and if the right one deciphers his name and will present it to the Herald office, we will present him with a free ticket to the Victory Theatre. Tickets must be called for before the follow ing issua. Miss Moselle Boyette re cognised her name last issue. Today’s Tantaliser: almobefarota Co. Health Board Urges Vaccination Dr. Massey Gives Report of Work Done During Past Quarter; Board Commends Efficiency -♦ At the regular quarterly meet ing of the County Board of Health held here last week a resolution was passed in regard to vaccination for small pox that reads as follows: “Be it resolved that the Board of Health very strongly urges that all children attending school and those who are to begin for the first time in the fall to be vaccinated now or at least before the opening of the j fall term, and further that the Board of Education of Johnston county be requested to cooperate in seeing that this undertaking is carried out.” This resolution was passed be cause of the prevalence of this dis ease in Johnston county and east ern North Carolina this year. Dr. C. C. Massey, county health officer, was present at the meeting and submitted his report which was commended by the board. His report was as follows: “Since January 1, 294 contagi ous diseases nave ueeu i«u. About 90 per cent of this number were measles, the prevalence of which at this time is not so great. Measles is the most highly contag ious of all the contagious diseases of childhood. Epidemic spread oc curs at irregular intervals, depend ing largely upon the size of the non-immune child population which has accumulated since the last epi demic, and when a case appears in a school, further spread depends chiefly upon, not so much the con trol measures instituted, but the immunity status of the children in the immediate vicinity of the orig inal case, that is, the number of children in the community who have not had measles. At the present medical science has noth ing effective and practical to of fer for immunizing children again st measles as it has for small pox, typhoid fever, and diphtheria. Per haps no one of the childhood dis eases so lowers the resistance of the individual rendering him liable to secondary invaders, especially of the respiratory tract, as does the measles. Pneumonia, middle ear disease and mastoiditis are the more frequent secondary attackers. All infants under two years of age, regardless of their splendid physical condition, all mal-nourish ed, feeble, and dobilitat«|l children should have all possible safeguards thrown around them, for twothirds jf the deaths from measles occur in children under two years of age. The problem of control is an ad mittedly difficult one as it is fre quently first recognized in the school room with the bloom of eruption well developed, and by this time numerous and untrace able contacts have been made, and the damage so far as spread goes, has already been done. Whooping cough is slightly less contagious than measles. “Eight cases of small pox oc cururing over this period made it necessary to vaccinate a large number, most of whom were school; children. Since the first of the ■ year 3,129 have been vaccinated I against small pox, decidedly rais- ! ing the immunity status against this disease. People generally are coming to realize that small pox vaccination is an established sci entific fact, that it is a safe pro cedure, and sure protection against small pox and that protection con jferned by successful vacciantion lasts for a very long timfc. The indifference of the multitude and the anti-vaccination propaganda of the prejudiced and misinformed is fast disappearing and vaccina tion is being accepted, r.ot alone as an individual precaution, but as a community and social obli gation. “In this same period 28 schools were visited and many children ex amined for physical defects, ton sils and adenoids removed from a small number, refractive errors, and dental defects corrected in some, hookworm treatments given others, while many were instruct ed as to cure for scabies. “Special examinations: For mar riages, 45; children certificated for industry, 6; for admission to in stitutions, (benevolent) 5; for lon^ Gkrifics 4fce Pig Dr. Josef Franz Kapp, prominent medical man, who claims that a serum obtained^ from pigskin will restore grandma’s complexion to rival tha: •»f her erandriauKfcter. Senator George Sounds Warning Tyranny Lies Ahead If Ham iltonian Idea of Government Prevails; Johnston County Well Represented in Expo sition Events Tyranny lies ahead for the United States if the Hamiltonian idea of government prevails, is the opinion of Senator Walter F. George, of Georgia, who made an address at the banquet held in connection with the East Carolina Chamber of Commerce at Golds boro Tuesday. The most needed re form of our government today, thinks Senator George, is in regard to the bureaus, commissions, and boards that administer national legislation. The power delegated to these bureaus has grown to an unprecedented extent, and now some of the bureaus have the last word in administering certain leg islation. He cited the Interstate Commerce Commission which has supreme power in controlling and regulating the railroads of the country. Senator George’s ^address was characterized by earnestness, sim plicity, and clearness of thought. He had a message for his hearers and it needed not illustrations or jokes to put it across. He made a fine impression upon the 150 or 200 persons who heard him, as he sounded a warning against the growing power of commissions thus crowding the legislative, judicial and executive departments of overnment out of their constitu tional places. In his closing re marks, he indicated how America might perpetuate her greatness, not by emulating material things, but by helping the weak and un der-privileged. America’s place in civilization, he said, will in the end be determined by* her position with reference to the other nations of the world. The dinner which wa« preaided over by Mr. Felix Harvey, Jr., of Kinston, president of the East Car olina Chamber of Commerce, was the outstanding event of the sec ond' day of the Exposition now staged in Goldsboro. Col. George Freeman of Goldsboro, made the address of welcome to those pres ent to which Dr. A. S. Oliver, of Benson, responded. Others who made brief speeches were State Senator E. B. Dykes of Georgia and W. C. Neill, ex-speaker of the Georgia House of Representatives, who drove 600 miles just to spend the day with their good friend Sen ator George. Congressman Aber nathy and Judge Francis D. Win ston were also called upon for remarks. The inclemency of the weather Tuesday prevented the afternoon program from being carried out at the Exposition Hall, though a few braved the rain and viewed the exhibits and automobile show. TURN TO PAGE 3 acy, 16. “Twenty-six registered midwives report regularly their activities to this office. “Visits to jail, 29; convict camps, 18; county home, 20. “Specimens sent to State Lab oratory for analysis, 33. “Conferences, individual and group, 689. “Car, miles driven, 3,350/* Six Intoxicated Drivers In Court —«+,. — j Six Other Violators of the Prohibition Law Before Judge Aycock In Recorders Court This Week -— Six of the cases tried in Record er's court here this week were against intoxicated drivers, and six others were against violators of the prohibition law. The court news this week goes to prove that whiskey has a large part in the Johnston county courts. The fol lowing cases came up for trial: W. H. Batten, 45, a white far mer, entered a plea of guilty to possession of whiskey. He was sentenced to the county roads for 60 days, given a $25 fine and taxed with the cost. The road sentence is to be suspended upon condition that the defendant does not vio late the prohibition law in any form or manner whatever during the next two years. Rowland Ivey, 21, a white me chanic, was found guilty of oper ating a motor vehicle while intox icated. A three month road sen tence is to be suspended upon the payment of a $50 fine and the cost on condition that the defendant does not violate the prohibition law in the next two years, and fur ther that he does not violate the prohibition law again in three Seth Ryals, a white farmer, plead guilty to possession and transportation. He was sentenced to the roads for 60 days, fined $25 and taxed with the cost. The road sen tence is to be ssupended upon com dition that the defendant does not violate the prohibition law again during the next two years. P. L. Clifton, 29, a white far-' mer, was convicted of driving a motor vehicle while intoxicated and of operating without proper lights. He was sentenced to the roads for 12 months for operat ing car while intoxicated. He is not to operate a motor vehicle again in North Carolina during the next 12 months. Prayer for judg ment was continued upon the pay ment of cost for operating car without proper lights. The road sentence of 12 months is to be sus pended upon condition that the defendant does not violate the proh ibition law in any form or man ner whatsoever during the next two years and that he pay a fine of $100 and the cost. G. E. Watson, white, a telephone operator, plead guilty to giving worthless check. Prayer for judg ment was continued upon the pay ment of the check and cost. / Eddie Thomas, a colored farmer, entered a plea of gulty to beating a ride on a train. He was sent to jail for 30 days to be hired out. He was also taxed with the cost. Zeb Adams and Jodie Adams were convicted of assault with a deadly weapon. They were sentenc ed to the roads for 60 days each and required to pay half the cost each. They gave notice of appeal, and their bond was fixed at $100. C. D. Lackey, 29. white, line man, received a 60-day road sen TURN TO PAGE 3 DEBATE BETWEEN LOCAL SCHOOL AND FOUR OAKS Friday, April 20. Time 2:45 p. m.—Four Oaks high school civ ics class will debate Sm|thfield high school civics class on the sub ject: “Resolved, that student gov ernment as practiced at the Uni versity of North Carolina should be adopted in the high schools of North Carolina.'* Four Oaks will uphold the affirmative side while SmithfieM will defend the nega tive. Time: 2:45 o’clock. DELMA PEACOCK IS KILLED BY LIGHTNING WEDNESDAY Delma Peacock, son of W. B. Peacock of near Peacock’s Cross Roads, was struck by lightning and instantly killed Wednesday morning about 11 o’clock. The young man went out in the yard to feed a dog that was chained to an oak tree in the yard. The lightning struck the tree killing the boy. The dog was unhurt. He was eighteen years of age. The remains were laid to rest in the Peacock graveyard near Peacock’s Cross Roads yesterday afternoon at three o’clock. CASE OF SMALL POX AT COTTON MILL HERE According: to County Health Officer Dr. C. C. Massey, a case of small pox developed this week at the cotton mill. Miss Christine Lee who works in the mill is the patient. While there has been a number of exposures to the case, none of the children in the home are of school age. Mr. J. T. Honey cutt. superintendent of the will, has assured Dr. Massey that he will urge the vaccina tion of all mill employes. Al ready several who were known to have been exposed to the case have been vaccinated. County Art Exhibit Begins April 18 Will Be Held In Court House; Several Attractive Prizes Offered For Best Drawings By MRS. W. T. WOODARD | SELMA, April 12.—Beginning next Wednesday, April 18, John | ston county’s first art exhibit will be open to the public in the court house in Smithfield. This exhibit is under the auspices of the Woman’s clubs of the county and is to en courage an appreciation of art. The school children are especial ly invited to attend on Friday or Saturday as an effort will be made to have a potter present, to demon strate clay modeling. There will be a display of Johnston county pottery. The clubs are offering the fol lowing prizes: $5 for the boy or girl in high school making the best original drawing; $5 for the boy or girl in the grammar grades mak in the best original drawing; $5 for the boy or girl between the ages of 16 and 25, not in school, making the best original drawing; $5 for the boy or girl making the best exhibit of manual training; $5 for the club making the best exhibit as a whole. A prize will be given the individual sending the best original drawing. The first four prizes are offered by the combined Woman’s clubs of the county; the last two are offer ed by Mrs. B. A. Hocutt, of Clay ton, district president. While the Woman’s clubs of the county are sponsoring this move ment, everybody is invited to send exhibits and attend. Attend Moravian Easter Services. Mr. Geo. F. Brietz and family, Messrs. Joe Morgan and John Hughes, and Miss Ruth Brooks at tended the impressive Easter cere monies at the Moravian church in Winston-Salem on Saturday and Sunday. They were present at the “Love Feast” at 2:30 on Saturday given for visitors where throngs were turned away after the church was taxed to its capacity. The “Home Love Feast” was given on Good Friday. These interesting and sacred Easter observances have be come nationally known and a crowd estimated at 35,000 attended. Visitors were present from Ohio to Texas. A feature of the occasion is the numerous bands that played the Easter anthems, Mr. Brietz had five nephews and four other near of kin playing in the bands this year. TO GIVE UNIQUE PROGRAM Mrs. Joe Davis’s group will have charge of the program at the meeting of the Business and Pro* fessional Women’s ciulb to be held in the Woman’s club room next Tuesday evening. This promises to be one of the most interesting meetings of the year. Contests in voice, piano, reading and story telling will be put on and a three minute debate on the query, “Will , a B. & P. member make a good wife?” is to be a feature of the ] evening. All the members are urg ed to’, take part in one of these contests, and are requested to noti fy Mrs. Davis before n°°n Tues day which contest they will enter Most attractive prizes have been secured to present to the winners, MRS. MILLIE MYATT DEAD. News reached here yesterday oi the death of Mrs. Millie Myatt, widow of the late Mr. J. Waltei Myatt, which occured at the horns of her brother, Mr. Barbee, in Ral eigh, Wednesday. The funeral was held yesterday afternoon. Miss Annie Myatt and Mrs. E. S. Ed mundson of this city attended tbs fuaeraj. * , Issues Last Call For 1927 Taxes — ♦ Tax Collector Grimes Urge^ Payment Before Law Must Take Its Course; Soon Be Listing Time Again Johnston county’s tax collector, Mr. W. F. Grimes, is doing every thing he can to get the tax money due now, before another levy is on. He has no desire to be hard on any one, and he is therefore is suing an appeal to those who have not yet paid their 1927 taxes in the following statement: “I will say that May 1st is ad vertising time. All who want tc avoid paying cost and advertising expenses can do so by paying be fore the first Monday in May. At that time, the law demands that 1 advertise the land, but I hope there will be none to advertise, though at this time there seems to be right much that the books has not been paid on. It seems on my part, a very hard duty to perform, but it is my aim to carry out the de mands of this law as nearly as pos sible. I sincerely hope that those who have not paid will take ad vantage of this opportunity and : pay between now and the first | Monday in May. After that time I | shall send out men in the various | townships to collect from those who have not paid. If the taxes are not paid at once the law will force them to garnishee, levy upon, seize and sell personal prop erty, which will be a very disagree able duty for an officer to perform, i Why not come and pay at once and avoid this trouble and expense? Your tax seems high enough with out your waiting and causing this extra expense to come on you. “I would like to ask the question, | ‘What is the cause of ipeople waiting so long to pay their I taxes?’—when they know, or | should know, that it is their legal, ! moral and Christian duty. Is it 1 hard times, unthoughtfulness, or j carelessness? At this time we have ! many good men that have not paid I their 1927 tax. Men who are sup ' posed to set good examples along this line, men of responsible po | sition, professional men, good bus iness men, and good men that I | understand are thinking of run ning for responsible positions in office. We also have on the tax books at least one thousand young men who are due only a two dol lar poll tax. These young men seem to be going about, having a good time, looking prosperous, feeling good, and yet paying little or no attention to their legal duty as a tax payer. I want to say to you, young men, get busy and pay your tax. If you don’t, the tax col lector will soon come to see you and he then will add a dollar or more cost to it, for the service of a notice is now, under the law, a fee of one dollar. may isi is lax lifting time tor 1928 tax. How do men that hold back, and in one sense, act the part of Annanias and Saphira, men who do not readily carry out their part of the burden of the govern mental affairs by cooperating and paying their tax early, expect men in charge of affairs such as espec ially our county commissioners, to give us genuine and good economic government? I often hear of men making the statement that it pays them to hold back their tax money and if necessary let our county commissioners borrow lots money and pay big interest. Now asl yourself this question, ‘Is it treat ing my neighbor and fellowmar who has paid his tax, fair?’ I your conscience tells you it is then I will say no more at pres ent. “Dear editor, let us thank yoi for this space in your valuabli paper and your hearty co-opera tion of the furtherance of gooi governmental affairs in our gram old county of Johnston. “W. F. GRIMES, . “Tax Collector,” -■ . Presbyterian Services. Smithfield Sunday morning a 11 o'clock; Progress at 2:30 p. m Smithfield Sunday evening at o’clock, sermon by Rev. Joe Walk er, of Raleigh. Public cordially in vited. —. • For heavy hauling get a Grahar Brothers truck. Phone 36-1, adi Body Of Negress Is Found In Ditch * Dic& *With Boot* On'* On the platform of a hall at Delaware, O., where he was about tc ; address his followers, Frank B. Wil- ; lis, of Ohio, pictured above, candidate for the Republican nomination for j President, was suddenly stricken and 1 iic(L Road Engineer Details of Operations During The Month of March In The Five Districts Submits Mr. J. B. Lodor, superintendent V of highways of Johnston county, f submitted to the Highway Commis- ; sion the following report of oper ations during the month of March: . District No. 1. W. N. Holt, Commissioner. Clayed and graveled, 293 yards; i clearing and grubbing, 6600 yards; I culverts placed, 495 feet; bridges repaired, 8; roads rebuilt, 114 i miles; roads built, 2 3-4 miles; roads dragged, 1275 miles; ma | chine ditched, 99 miles; hand ditch ed, 706 yards; Shoulders pulled, 43 miles; fill in place, 138 yards. ' District No. 2. L. Gilbert, Commissioner. Clearing and grubbing, 250 yards; culverts placed, 72 feet; bridges j repaired, 16; roads rebuilt, 214 1 miles; roads built, 614 miles; roads dragged 728 miles; machine ditch ed, 6 miles; hand ditched, 265 j yards; shoulders pulled, 46 miles; cutting right of way, 3040 yards; . fill in place, 130 yards; bridges built, 6. District No. 3. S. E. Barbour, Commissioner. I Clayed and graveled, 239 yards; t culverts placed, 61 feet; bridges repaired, 1; roads dragged, 525 miles; hand ditched, 180 yards; j cutting right of way, 2040 yards. | District No. 4. C. P. Harper, Commissioner. Clayed and graveled, 780 yards; , culverts placed, 272 feet; clearing » and grubbing, 200 yards; bridges repaired, 4; roads rebuilt, 5 3-12 . miles; roads dragged, 1022 miles; hand ditched, 925 yards; cutting right of way, 1800 yards; fill in place, 205 yards. District No. 5. Dr. J. C. Grady, Commissioner. Clayed and graveled, 1580 yards; ! culverts placed, 120 feet; bridges repaired, 8; roads dragged, 1222 miles; machine ditched, 49 miles; j hand ditched, 469 yards; shoulders TURN TO PAGE THREE CAPTURES THREE STILLS Last Saturday Mr. R. D. Mah ler, deputy sheriff of Bentonville township, captured two whiskey stills in Banner township. One of the stills was in operation and W. A. McLamb was arrested. He gave bond for his appearance in Re I corder’s court on May 1 to be tried [ for violating the prohibition law. Five gallons of whiskey and two barrels of beer were found and destroyed. Within half a mile of this still another was found. This was not in operation but the complete out - fit was seized. Four barrels of beer • were poured out. 1 On Tuesday afternoon Deputy ■ Mahler, assisted by Mr. A. B. - Hood, captured a 100-gallon still in Meadow township. The still was not in operation and no one was 1 arrested. Ttyo barrels of beer • were destroyed. Sarah Wright Who Defied Officers I n O’neals Township Had Been Missing 71 Days Coroner Kirkman was call ed to Oneals township Wednes day to hold an inquest over the dead body of Sarah Wright, colored woman who was found in a ditch Tuesday morning by a negro youth who made report of his findings to the sheriff's office here. The ■woman was lying in a ditch face, down when found, and parts of her bedy were cover ed with several inches of water. The woman had been missing for seventy-one days, though the county health offi cer was of the opinion that she had been dead only about a week. It will be recalled that Sarah Wright was the woman who defied officers some time ago when they made an effort to have her vacate the house in which she had been living. When she was finally ousted from the house she fled through the woods and had not been seen since until she w'as found dead. Coroner Kirkman impanelled the following jury for the inquest yesterday: A. N. Smith, L. T. Da vis, N. M. Narron, Howard Stan :il, Luners Strickland and D. M. Green. The witnesses examined in cluded J. C. B. Hocutt, J. L. Eason, Lee Hocutt, R. M. Whitley, B. W. Whitley and James Privette. The jury rendered the decision that the woman came to her death from unknown causes. FUNERAL RITES LATE EXUM ELLIS HELD WEDNESDAY Funeral services for Exum Ellis i)f 1827 White Oak Road, who died Monday at Rex Hospital following a short attack of pnemonia, were held from the First Baptist church in Clayton Wednesday afternoon at 1 o’clock. He was 33 years of ago. A sign writer by profession, Mr. Ellis who was prominent in local Fraternal circles, had lived in Ral eigh for the past eight years and was well known. He was a mem ber of the First Baptist church and a member of Raleigh Lodge, No. 1318, Loyal Order of Moose. At the time of his death he wa.s cap tain of the degree staff and was engaged in the organization of a Moose Lodge in Durham. He was ilso a member of Capital City Court cl, Jr. O. Ui. A. M., of this city. Mr. Ellis was the son of Mr. and Mrs. Jack Ellis, of Clayton, who survive him. He is also survived by his widow, who was formerly Miss Lona Monk, and two children, Ex um, Jr., and Peggie Lee. Raleigh Moose had charge of the funeral.—Raleigh Times. Baptist Church Sunday. Sunday school at 9:45, F. IT. Brooks superintendent. Preaching by the pastor at 11 and 8. Re vival meetings begin on the fourth Sunday. All services are prepara tory to these n^eetangs. Special prayer service Wednesday night at 8 p. m. Aunt Roxie Opines By Me— I snnt oiy ole man arter sum pills, and cornin’ back heede syar got in a mix up wid another and de road got dat dose of pills, and I hopes hit shows ez much im provement by hit oz I wuz hopin’ ♦-! 1 Jet i —• • ,*t