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Vol. 2. No. 39:
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SPRAY, N. C., THURSDAY, AUGUST 2. 192,1
$1.50 Per Year. Single Copy 5c*
Single Men Victors In Second
Series Volley Ball Tournament.
First Three Games Were Decisive
Second Series Played Tues
day Night at Central
Y. M. C. A.
ONLY FOUR GAMES
MARRIED WON 4TH
Put Fourth Game Was a
Joke.- Singles Rested
Two Best Players.
Five games were not necessary,
as in the first series, to determine
the winners of the second series of
Volley Ball games played at the
Central Y. M. C. A. last Tuesday
night.
The single men took the games in
the one, two, three order, and so the
first three were decisive.
A fourth game was played, but
was not indulged in very enthusias
tically by either team. In this game
the men with “bosses” reached the
fifteen point only after the inde
pendents were fourteen.
The first game was the best of all,
though the benedicts scored but
nine points. The married men show
ed more “pep” in this than any oth
er, and until near the game’s end
a prediction of its outcome was im
possible. This game ended 15-9 in
single mens favor.
The second game was an over
whelming victory for the independ
lads. In this game the benedicts
showed no fight at all. Indeed they
made only three points during the
entire game.
The third game wras likewise a
victory for the single lads, and
though there was not quite so great
a difference in the »:ore as in the
second game, the married men had
not reached the half way line when
the singles made the necessary num
ber of points to win the game,
score 15-7.
The best playing on the single
men’s team was done by Bob Moore
and Ofus Slaydon, while J. W. East
fought hardest for the benedicts.
Contributing to the weakening
of the married men’s team was the
inability of two of their strongest
players, L. H. Hodges and L. M,
Barksdale, to play.
The single men are about to con
clude that it is best to stay single.
Unless the married men win the
series next Tuesday night, the singles
will be declared champions, and chal
lenges from other teams of this and
adjacent communities will be con
sidered.
Y. M. C. A. News
BOYS’ BULLETIN.
Camping Trips.
Boys, do you want to go camping?
All boys up to 16 years of age
who are interested in making camp
ing trips during August are invited
to meet in the Central “Y” audi
torium tonight at 7:15 to decide on
the location of the camp. Come and
let us know where you want to go.
Those who attend the meeting will
be given a good show.
Camps will be held August 6-11
for boys up to the age of 14 who
are not Scouts; August 13-18 for
Scouts who are not working; August
20-25 for Scouts and other boys
who work.
Do you know the Boy Scout. Oath?
Here it is: ON MY HONOR I WILL
DO MY BEST.
1. To,do my duty to God and my
country, and to obey the Scout Law.
2. To help other people at all
times.
3. To keep myself physically
strong, mentally awake and morally
straight.
There are now over 523,000 boys
and men enrolled in the Scout or
ganization. If you are not in you
had better join up. The Scouts meet
every Tuesday night at the Central
‘‘Y” at 7:15.
Miss White says a man spends
half his ilfe time wanting to know
things and the other half wishing he
could forget.
ROTARIANS ADOPT
NUMBER OF BOYS
FOR CAMP WEEK
On last Tuesday the Rotarians.
had at their regular meeting a large (
attendence, a fine program and a1
wonderful Rotary spirit. They had
two visitors, Mr. Willard Northup,
architect, of Winston-Salem, and
Stuart Bondurant of Spray.
After enjoying a fine luncheon
the club was well enterained by the
program committee and its staff of
1 speakers, singers, etc.
The first address, that of Sam
Marshall, was impressive. Trough
extremely brief it was declared by
one Rotarian to be the best ever
made by Sam. He talked on “The
Speech I Had Prepared But Lost.”
A quartet, the personnel of which
was Dan Taylor, Hayes Barker,
Eddie McColl and George Clark,
sang at the instruction of Henry
Owen.
The real feature of the program
was a talk by Price Gwynn on Bank
ing. Mr. Gwynn was introduced by
Honorable A. D. Ivie.
After this talk, Henry Owen,
Secretary of the Central Y. M. C.
A. read the names of fourteen boyss
without one or both parents or in
need of help, and the Rotarians
agreed to adopt them for the boys
camp week, and pay their total ex
penses for that week.
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NEWS STORY
Ford Motor Company
Detroit, Mich.
Detroit, Mich., Jujy 31.—A total of
1,050,185 automotive products were
built by the various divisions of the
Ford Motor Company during the first
six months of the present year, ac
cording to figures just complied.
The output for the half year was
as follows:
Ford cars and Trucks, domestic and
foreign, 941,245; Canada, 46,871;
Fordson Tractors, 58,557, and Lin
coln cars, 3,512.
A new monthly record for produc
tion was established by the domestic
asembly plants in June, with a total
of 175,030 Ford" Cars and Trucks, ex
ceeding the output of May by nearly
5,000.
New production marks have been
set up against almost daily since Jan
uary, but there hasn’t been time when
manufacture even approximated the
demand.
With production increasing in an
endeavor to meet the demand, it is
expected that the company will finish
the year with a total approximating
1,800,000 Ford cars and trucks for
domestic use alone.
This is the opinion expressed by
officials in view of the present pros
perous conditions, the increasing num
ber of orders and the outlook for
even better times prevailing during
the coming months.
In bringing up production, efforts
all along have been devoted to build
ing better. As a result many im
provements have been made and
though Ford Cars and Trucks are to
day at the lowest price level in the
history of the company they are of
higher quality and present a greater
value to the purchaser than ever be
fore.
The demand for Ford Trucks and
light Delivery Cars is particularly
optimistic since it reflects the atti
tude of business men, as well as far
mers, toward expansion and greater
efficiency. Sales of Ford Trucks are
more than double those of last year,
which indicates the extent of the gen
eral prosperity.
For months Ford dealers have had
no stocks on hand, buyers absorbing
the Cars and Trucks as rapidly as
they are turned out of assembly
plants. With this condition contin
uing production is certain to remain
at capacity to aid dealers in making
deliveries as quickly as possible.
Successful advertising and tele
graph poles perform the same dut
ies; both help to support messages
of good cheer. “Say it with Flow
| ers” is a good example.
NEXT WEEKS’ POSTER
There’s Always Steady Work
For The Steady Worker
When times get tight!
Sincere, steady, conscientious workers
always get, and always earn the prefer
ence! *
What Is Your “Average?”
ROAD JUBILEE AT
GUERRANT SPRINGS
A GREAT SUCCESS
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Crowd Estimated At Ap
proximately 3,000.
Property Not
Sold.
DATA CONCERNING
THIS HIGHWAY
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Gathered Friday at Guerrant
Springs in a natural wooded amphi
theatre nestling in the hills not far
from the border lines of the two
states, hundreds of Virginians and
North. Carolinians celebrated with an
appropriate program the completion
of the opening of a hard surfaced
road linking two neighboring cities—
Danville and Reidsville—and two
states—Virginia and North Caro
lina. The crowd was estimated at
noon at between 2,500 and 3,000.
Mingling under the branches of
the beautiful shade trees that cover
ed the sloping hills and the scenic
dell with its bubbling springs, peo
ple of two soverignties and two
municipalities — bankers, farmers,
business and professional men, their
wives and children, became one
community in spirit, celebrating the
linking up of two cities and two
sections, even though the union pass
ed over a state line. The official pro
gram, conducted on the slope from
the porch of a picturesque white
washed, mud-daubed log cabin, un
derwent a slight change from the
planned routine owing to the ab
sence of Frank Page, state highway
commissioner of North Carolina, and
Congressamn J. M. Hooker. Never
theless, the remainder of the regular
order of events was carried out suc
cessfully and pleasantly to the sur
round-crowd, the high light of the
program following an exchange of
courtesies by Mayor Harry Wooding,
of Danville, and J. M. Sharp, of
Reidsville, was the brief address of
H. Shirley, state highway commis
sioner of Virginia. Splendid music
for the occasion was furnished by
the coast artillery band of Danville.
With J. P. Turner, secretary of
the Reidsville Chamber of Com
merce, in charge, the celebration
opened with several numbers by the
band. One number, “Dixie,” the
song that the South will always
sing, was especially appropriate to
the occasion celebrating the cement
ing of friendship by a modern ce
ment road between two states, re
nowned in the traditions of the
the Southland. Invocation was by
Rev. Marion Huske, Presbyterian
pastor of Reidsville, followed by an
address of welcome to the people of
Danville and Virginia by J. M.
Sharp, of the Reidsville bar. In his
hearty welcome Mr. Sharpe compar
ed the roads of yie past with the
roads of today. Saying that he re
membered the day when it took two
days to make the trip from Reids
ville to Danville and back, but now
one hour is sufficient owing to the
new road, and those commonly called
“speedsters” can make it in 30
minutes. Adding that the com
pletion of this road which is only a
strip in the North Carolina road
program should prove an incentive
to Carolina’s neighbor state.
After a musical number by the
artillery band, Mayor Wooding re
sponded and in turn welcomed the
Reidsville and North Carolina dele
gation present. Standing on the
porch of the little cabin and speak
ing in a voice that did not reveal the
the weight of passing years, Dan
ville’s municipal leader and veteran
of the war between the states paid
his respects to North Carolina as a
state, and as a people. The atten
tive listeners heard of his first trip
to and through Reidsville, the handi
cap of a trip owing to the roads.
Then came his plea for a closer unity
between two progressive states that
that have so much in common. Re
viewing the past he recalled how the
red blood of the two states flowed
together at the battle of Guilford
Cour tHouse, where Cornwallis was
given the blow by Virginians and
Carolinians that resulted in his sur
render at Yorktown. Then in his
own youth the bond between the Vir
ginians and Caroliniaps that went for
ward side by side in the futile but
world famous charge at Gettysburg.
If there exists any enmity whatsoever
between the people of the two com
munities “the hatchet should be hur
ried today,” said the mayor in sub
stance. His fervent talk recalling
to the memory of those present the
valiant deeds of their ancestors
brought prolonged -applause.
H. G. Shirley, state highway com
missioner, was the next speaker., • His
topic was entirely appropriate to the
day and bore entirely on the road
subject He paid a graceful compli
ment to the state of North Carolina
by declaring that there was no better
state highway commissioner than
Frank Page anywhere in the United
States. Mr. Shirley said ‘that the
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BABSON SOUNDS
WARNING AS TO
BUSINESS HERE
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Statistician Gives Reasons
For Not Being Optimistic
On Situation.
ISSUES STATEMENT
(Special to The Register)
WELLESLEY HILLS, Mass., July
26—Roger W. Babson was today ask
ed why it is that he is not so optimis
tic on the general business situation
when so many of the barometers of
business indicate great prosperity.
The optimistic forecasts of promin
ent bankers, manufacturers, and fin
ancial advisors were called to Mr.
Babson’s attention arid he was frank
ly asked why a warning was needed
under present stable conditions. His
reply was as follows;
“It is true that a number of the
barometers of business are distinctly
favorable at the present time. In
order to be absolutely fair to every
one I even took pains to enumerate
these in a published statement only j
a month ago. The merchants are not '
over stocked; manufacturers have1
not been speculating in raw mater- j
ials; banks have good rersources;
check transactions are normal; rail- \
road earnings are exceptionally!
good; and our great industries are .
apparently on a sound basis. My |
critics are correct in their statement
that surface indications point a won- 1
derful business' this fall, and per-,
haps two or three years of rising
prices. I realize these rising figures
as well as anyone and it is very hard :
for me to sound a warning while so
many are so optimistic and so con
tented,.
“My reason for sounding a warn- j
ing is two-fold. First, the Babson
chart of business conditions shows'
clearly that the period of readjust
ment is only about 60 per cent com- j
pleted, and that further readjust
ment is inevitable. Second, that the j
attitude of the younger generation j
is distinctly harmful to the present
situation. That is to say, my warn- t
ing is based on statistics and on a ,
study of the spiritual forces underly-;
ing business. Of course, in reality,
: the spiritual, or moral. fdu*ee are by :
far the more important as they
really determine what statistics and
the chart will later show. The atti
tude of the people bears the same;
relation to the Babson chart and to
! statistics that the temperature bears
to the thermometer, or as carload
ings bear to railroad earnings.
“1 have offices in twenty-six large '
cities and correspondents in two hun- ,
dred other cities. In every locality
I find that the average man today is
interested only in spending. People.
not only want to get rich quick but,
without working. People are buying
recklessly without any thought about
where the money is coming from'
with which to pay. Our young people
seem to have the idea that dollar!
bills grow on trees and all they have
to do is to pick them off. Almost no
one wants to work. Very few want
to produce. Earnest and industrious
manual laborers, such as we had
twenty-five years ago, are almost an
unknown quantity. Everyone wants
to ride in the cart and no one wants
to pull. Our percentage or producers
is steadily decreasing and the per
centage of middlemen is steadily in
creasing,
“Such conditions cannot continue
forever. A dog may live on his tail
for awhile, but it cannot continue
this process indefinitely. People may
for a while get a living doing one
another’s washing, but after the
clothes are worn out there will be
no washing to do. A certain number
of people can exist as middlemen.
Have you ever worked in
SPARTANBURG, S. C.?
Did you work and go to school at
the
TEXTILE INDUSTRIAL INSTI
TUTE
The makers of “Character Cloth”
The president, Mr. D. E. Car
mack, has written to inquire if any
one working for The Carolina
Cotton & Woolen Mills Co., has
ever been in his school. He is
trying to keep a record of the num
ber of his students now engaged
in mill work.
Will you help him with his facts
and help us to give him an accu
rate answer?
If you have worked there, please
give your name to your superin
tendent hy Saturday.
If you know anyone in our em
ploy who has been to this indus
trial training school, will you give
his or her name to the superin
tendent also, as he or she might
not see this notice.
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SUNDAY SCHOOLS OF
ROCKINGHAM COUNTY
MEET IN MADISON
Annual'Sunday School Con
vention Will Be Held
Aug. 23 and 24th.
ALL COUNTY SCHOOLS
TO BE REPRESENTED
The Rockingham County Sunday
School Convention will be h eld in the
Madison Baptist Church Thursday
and Friday, August 23rd and 21th.
It is the plan to make this one of
the best conventions held so far in the
County. Every Sunday School .in
the County should have delegates.
The information and inspiration of
these meetings are reflected through
out the year in the Sunday School
having delegates.
Full program will be offered in
next issue. In /the meanwhile be
thinking of your delegates.
COMMUNITY MUSIC
According to Charles H. Smith,1
formerly local manager for the Burns
detective agency and present man
ager of the Smithsonian Bureau of
investigation of Boston, music is the
agency which will allay social unrest.
“If there were shrines of music,”
Mr. Smith declared to a reporter
for the Boston Herald, “if there
were more music in the cafe’s, music
in the dining rooms, in the hotels—
yes, and more music in the church—
it would prove to be the greatest
spiritual tonic ever known. It would
result in the revival and strengthen
ing of human nature.
It would help marvelously in
calming the unrest now manifest
everywhere and in checking the
crime waves which overspread the
country.”
“I think the compensations of
music are very large and the whole
psychological state of a people is
definitely responsible to its influence.
If you can turn the minds of the
people to things beautiufl in art and
music, to things which are Godly
and celestial, you will be going a
long way toward improving the social (
state .
“Many poor souls have found new i
life and consolation in good music, j
Good..music has been responsible for;
changing the lives of many persons
from bad to good.” j
“Music is the expression of divine
aspiration. It cannot but have a |
lasting and noteworthy effect upon
the people.”
“In my work as a private detective
replied Mr. Smith, “I have seen what
might almost be described as mir-!
acles performed by music. I have
seen the hardest criminals and fallen
women practically converted and led
to the right road after they had been
inspired by hearing sacred or sen- J
timental music, which had penetrat
ed the very heart of their being and
won them over. They had been
changed from dangerous enemies to
society to good and useful citizens.
A half hour or more spent in lis
tening to good music after a long
days contact with the friction and
asperites of this work-a-day world
will act as a balance wheel to restore
the jaded soul, the perplexed mind,
the tired body.
“I have seen thousands of people
in penitetiaries, prisons and reform
schools inspired with the keen desire
to do good things and to live a right
life after leaving these institutions;
and music, they have declared to me,
has been in great measure respon- j
sible for this inspiration.”
A man who doesn’t advertise is;
much like the manager of a stranded
theatrical troupe—he hasn’t much
of a show.
Middlemen are a necessity and serve j
a valuable economic function, but
America’s great need is producers,1
especially men and women filled with \
the desire to produce and with the
joy of production. America’s great j
need is a revival of the joy of work.
America’s great need is a revival of
the desire to serve. America’s great
need is a revival of the habit of sav
ing.
“I am npt fearful for America in
the long run;.but rather I am a great
optimist on this country and the peo
ple of this country. My love of
America causes me to issue the warn
ing that the attitude of the average
young person today is not right to
ward his or her work. A doctor is
not friendly to his patient if he
blindly shuts his eyes to his patient’s
disease. Ohe cannot be a true friend
of the United States by blindly shut
ting his eyes to the wrong attitude
of the new generation toward indus
try, service and thrift It is this
wrong attitude which has already
.caused business—as indicated by the
Babson chart—to decline. The chart
today stands at 3 per ‘cent below
normal compared with 1 per cent
below normal at the beginning of
the year.” .
Picnic of Carolina Co-operative
Council Will Be Held At County
Playground Saturday, August 11th
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MAN FORMERLY OF
SPRAY SAYS HE WILL
RUN FOR GOVERNOR
Gilliam Grissom Would Re
sign as Collector If Party
Calls.
BUT HE PREFERS
RACE BY MOREHEAD
Raleigh, July 30.—“I shall certain
ly run for governor if my party wants
me to do so,” was the declaration
with which Gilliam Grissom, United
States collector of revenue, yesterday
gave a three-cornered slant to the
talk of the Republican candidate in
1924, and which heretofore has been
confined almost exclusively to United
States District Attorney Irvin B.
Tucker and Isaac M. Meekins, who
has a position with the United States
alien property custodian in Washing
ton. The announcement gives prom
ise of a real battle for the position of
flag-bearer.
“Would you resign your position
as collector to run for governor?” the
collector was asked. “I certainly will
if my party calls, but I am not so
sure about the call, as I have had to
make a number of appointments and
of course I have offended twenty for
every one I have pleased,” was the
reply.
The collector was frankness itself
in discussing the situation and made
it clear that if he has anything to do
with the campaign next year it will
be a l'ed hot one, regardless of who
is the candidate.
According to Mr. Grissom, he would
prefer to see the race made by John
Motley Morehead, former national
committeeman and long the dominant
factor in the councils of the minority
party in this state. But the chances j
of Morehead running are regarded as
remote and the collector, who has al-1
ways been Morehead’s right hand
man and who served as secretary of j
the Republican executive committee
until appointed to office, does not
regard himself as an unlikely second
choice. “With solidified party be
choice. “WTith a solidified party be
so far he is making no claim of a
solidified party.—Reidsville Review.
FIRE PREVENTION
Resolution of the Chamber of Com
merce of the United States.
The National loss through the
waste of fire mounts upward at a
rate which indicates the need of
immediate attention in each state and
in every city. Within a few years
the amount in property values de
stroyed in the United States by fire
has increased until it is annually in
excess of the entire cost of the Pana
ma Canal. In large part this figure
represents waste which can be pre-1
vented by effective action by states
and cities. Personal liability for
damages accruing to others through
fire caused by gross negligence
should be enforced in wTays which
will bring home to individuals their
responsibilitity.
“The most effective medium of pub
licity is, and will continue to be the
public press,” says Philip H. Gads
den, president of the Eastern States
Gas Conference and vice-president of
the United Gas Improvement Com
pany of Philadelphia, in advocating
larger expenditures by gas companies
for advertising in newspapers.
Plans Being Made For Best
Picnic Ever Held.
WILL HAVE BIG
BRUNSWICK STEW
But There Will Be Many
Other Attractions—Con
tests, Music, Etc.
The Picnic of the Carolina Co-oper
ative Council will be held at the Coun
ty Playground, Saturday, August
11th. Plans are now being made for
the best picnic that has ever been
held. A big brunswick stew will be
the biggest attraction. However,
there will be plenty of red lemonade,
watermelon and smokes.
John Allen Hopper, who is one of
the best men in the country on
“Stews,” has been engaged to pre
pare the pots for us, an his helper,
who will be in charge of general ar
rangements will be George Chatham.
With that pair at work you can cer
tainly count on things being in good
shape.
Fieldale has been written and ask
ed for a match baseball game between
their foremen and the team from our
own group of members. This ought
to be a fine game with plenty of fun
and interest. There has been some
rumor to the effect that we Wilt have
a contest for,the ugliest man on the
grounds at the picnic. Pick out your
winner right now and get ready to
vote.
Band music will be on hand and a
good time for every person who is
a member of-the Council. Nothing will
be spared to make this the finest pic
nic ever held.
Free Correspondence
Course.
He was running a small hardware
store in a newly developed district,
and the wholesale dealers found him
backward in payment of his account.
They sent letter after letter, all of
them polite, but each more threaten
ing than the last. Finally they sent
their representative down to give him
a sporting chance.
“Now,” said the caller, “we must
have a settlement. Why haven’t you
sent us anything?
Are things going badly?”
“No, everything's going fine. My
bankers will guarantee me all right.”
“Then why haven't you paid up?”
“Well, you see, those threatening
letters of yours were so well gotten
up that I’ve been copying them and
sending them out to some customers
of mine who won’t pay up, and I’ve
collected nearly all outstanding debts.
I was only holding back because I
felt sure there must be a final letter,
and I wanted to get the series com
plete.”—Forbes.
The Supreme Court of the United
has twice within 30 days announced
the doctrine that present costs must
be given fair and just consideration
in arriving at the value of a public
service corporation's property for
rate making.
An agitation has been carried on to
launch the government into the field
of crop insurance, but a report just
issued by Department of Agriculture,
while emphasizing the necessity for
crop insurance, does not favor a gov
ernment agency.
CAPCOSS RELIEVES PAIN. ASK
YOUR DRUGGIST OR DEALER.
Informantion of Value Concerning
Safe-Guard of Health Against
Diphtheria and Typhoid Fever
(By Miss Helen Hancock)
Just recently the public through
the local physicians in co-operation
with the N. S. State Board of Health
has been given a just opportunity to
safe-guard their health against Dyph
theria and Typhoid fever.
These treatments were offered for
a very small fee, and many people
took advantage of them. A good
number however either deliberately
or otherwise failed to do so, but now
that the opportunity has passed, some 1
of them realizing their mistake, are
seeking for information as to how,
they might yet grasp it.
Some questions regarding the mat
ter have came to my hearing, and for
the special benefit of those who asked,
I will repeat them, and answer as
satisfactorily as I can.
1st Question. Do the visiting nurses
vaccinate for other diseases than
Typhoid fever?
Answer. No. Except under direction
of a physician. 4
2nd Question. Do tlie nurses give
the Typhoid treatment to any one
except those who work in the mill?
Answer. Yes. We give'this treat
ment to any person desiring it, be
cause we believe it to be the means
by which typhoid fever can be elim
inated, knowing that for every
single case of typhoid it is possible
for several other persons to be
come infected. So as health pro
moters, we do all iri our power to
prevent it. •
Our only conditions in giving it are:
1st. That people make a previous ap
pointment as to where and when it
can be most conveniently given.
Our reason for this being, that we
do not carry the vaccine around
only as we need it for immediate
use, since it is required to be kept
a certain temperature.
2nd. That families wishing to take
the treatment, have each member
start at the same time, thus sav
ing time and inconvenience.
3rd. That no person start the treat
ment unless they intend to finish
it. Needless to say by so doing,
they would be wasting time, energy,
and the cost of the vaccine.
HELEN HANCOCK.
Misses Managan left last Tues
day A. M. for a months vacation to
spend part time at Mars Hill: and
Asheville. Miss Hancock is substi
tuting for'her in her absence.