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ft ; i : y ... ELIZABETH CITY, N. CI MAYg, 1919 NO 564 VOL. XI fc" ; . i' j ft. Ha n 1 1 ji VICE PRESIDENT SCORES MILITARISM IN SPEECH Thos. R- Marshall Tells Elizabeth City Audience Militarism is a Greater Menace than Bolshevism Juiiitarism, not Bolshevism, is the menace of civilization, said Thos. R- Marshall, vice president of the United States at the Al bania Theatre in this city Mon dajr night. "If some way is not found to reduce armaments and nrevent future wars the last ves tige of government will be swept Cm) TMH Cell Li.1, vviii,iJJ.u.;. 11 U"1 vice president. Jlr. Marshall believes that the Lea gue of Nations will work out such a reduction of armaments as will spell the end of militarism. He thinks the best thing about the draft of the Lea gue is the provision enabling any coun try to withdraw from the League in two years if not satisfied with it. He said if the founders of this country had made such a thoughtful provision with respect to the states of this union, there would have been no' Civil War and the slavery question would have been settled some other way. The Vice President told his audience that he liked to think of America as an America for Americans, but that this ideal was an ideal only because, as a matter of fact, there are only about 500,000 Americans of pure colonial stock in this country at this time and half of them live in North Carolina. He congratulated North Carolina upon this fact and said that the country de pended upon the southern states for the preservation of the highest Ameri can ideals. He contrasted the English speaking American born population of the south with the heterogeneous mix ture of foreign races in the north and east and west. It was these foreigners who brought anarchy and disorder. The Vice President said it was the fundamental right of any native born American to criticise his government and to advocate Bolshevism or any thing else he believed in; but no for eigner had a right to come to this country and tell us how to run. our affairs. Privately, an hour before the lecture, Vice President Marshall told the writer of this newspaper that he Relieved about 25 first class hangings in America right away would-silence the Anarchists and other disturbers of j tbe-xuuiaasd peace, . .r . . .''.T.,:;,.ij Getting back to the menace of mili tarism, which seemed to be constantly on his mind, the Vice-President told his audience that they were already beginning to chafe under the burden of taxation imposed by this war, but that present taxes were not a circum stnnoa to what mierht be expected if the United States went in for a pro gram of miUtarism. He mentioned one item of 5,000 airplanes at $25,000 a piece that the military party wants this country to provide for times of peace as a measure of national preparedness The Vice President took a rap at the centralization of government at Washington and told his audience that here was a real peril to be avoided. He wished we could hark back to the days of states rights, but the last vestige of states' rights had been swept away. He thought we would all be better off if we could run the calen dar back and put this country where it was in 1840, at peace with the world and minding its own affairs, secure in its seclusion and undisturbed by in ternational politics. But that day could never be recalled; in fact the period prior to the year 1914 can never be re called; we are living in a New World and America is looked to for leader ship in this new order. He thought science and mathematics had made a mess of things and that the hope of the world lies in a more intelligent ac ceptance and application of the teach ings of Jesus Christ. Elizabeth City did not turn out to hear Vice President Marshall. He had only half an audience. Hardly a dozen men attended the reception in his honor at the Southern Hotel Monday after noon. Clarence Pugh called this lack of interest in so important a public man, a spirit of Bolshevism; "Yes, Bol shevism," reiterated Mr. Pugh; "The people are nursing a resentment against the government and everything con- nected with it; consciously or uncons- ciously they haven't the enthusiasm for government and high government of" flcials they used to have." Mr. Pugh probably was nearer right than wrong. Vice President Marshall was accom pained by his wife, a brilliant, whole some, sociable woman. Both Mr. and Mrs. Marshall made friends of all who came in contact with them here. OFFERS $500 REWARD FOR ARREST OF INCENDIARY His Home, Outbuildings and Contents Destroyed by Fire of Incendiary Origin W.W. Midgett, of Manns Harbor, Dare couty, is offering a reward of $500 for information leading to the arrest and conviction of the party or parties who burned his home and several hundred dollars worth of personal property on the night of April 28. Mr. Midgett boasted one of the nicest homes on Croatan. The home, including the cook house and smoke house' were burnt to the ground. Practically all the fur niture was destroyed. Miss Mary Mid eett, his daughter, lost more than $100 worth of clothing. SALVATION ARMY VALIANT IN WAR America Will Give It Every Dollar It Needs For Its Work at Home W. O. Saunders, chairman of the Sal vation Army Home Service Campaign in Pasquotank announces that there will be no "drive." The campaign is from Monday, May 19. to Monday, May 26. "In conducting this campaign for the Salvation Army in this county' says Chairman Saunders, "I . am not going to put on a "drive." No one will be driven into giving anything for the Salvation Army. Rather, I shall sound a call for contributions for this noble organization which served American soldiers and humanity so valiantly in the war. I believe the people of Pas quotank have only to know that the Salvation Army wants their help and that help will be forthemoing in gener ous measure. I trust that no one will wait for the week of May 19-26, but will make their contributions at once. I would like to see seveial $25 subscrip tions and not less than 100 $10 sub scriptions within the next few days which would provide for Pasquotank's quota with a margin to spare. Let s do- this and show our genuine appre ciation of the one war work organiza tion that is coming home without a knocker." Checks should be made pay able to H. G. Kramer, Treasurer and forwarded to W. O. Saunders, Chair man. " Like the 2,000,000 American boys whom it served so gloriously in the trenches of France, the Salvation Army is coming back from overseas, ready to put aside its khaki uniform of war service, don againg the "Civvies" and embark once more on its normal peace time activities. And, Just like those doughboys, the Salvation Army has come out of the war victorious and with citations for . j Mn,ntrr tm.i.r j, ni,.mv.n. imiim.l riZZZ TltealW-T..i Bf m. JL 1X12 TUlVij waa.wa& I tlon Army has won is a victory over the obstacles that lay before it In Its purpose of efficient service of the light ers of Pershing's army. Its citations are the thanks, cheers and prayers of 2,000,000 doughboys. Its wound stripes are rightfully golden of hue, for they typify the unselfish way In which the Army threw all its resources finan cial, spiritual and moral into the ef fort to help the American soldiers In France. Now the Army is asking the people of America to give It concrete evidence of the gratitude which has been so loudly, and so willingly expressed. From May 19 to 26 the Salratlon Army will conduct in the united States a campaign to raise $13,000,000 for Its Home Service Fund. The money Is needed both to recoup the fortiinesef the Army, shattered by its long service of the soldier and to permit it to carry on the work It has always done on the larger scale which the public now demands. Raising the money by this means, the Salvation Army explains, will eliminate, perhaps permanently, the necessity for the ceaseless solldta- fiAn nf fnnria whim nas Deen a ous- bear to the Army and the public alike, KA?" tnTJi vvnu, iuiicu lu wivw 1 their time to gathering money, were in an 2? ewS to devote all their time in future to the duties for which they have been trained. v n hna heen determined exactly and logically by means of budgets prepared locally by) workers of the Salvation Army In all x -m tt Cfotaa parte of the United States. Already headquarters ior tne cam- paign have been established in New York City. A ready respons in en- couragement and cheering wishes for success has been heard from all parts ( Qf country. Men and women ment in rU walk8 o ue have Volunteered their services as active 1 DarticlDants in the drive. The Army's 2,000,000 loyal rooters the boys who went overseas In .khaki are all lined " . : 7V;i; up reauj iu uciy. 1 - 1 httiod thm over there, but it found Jobs for many of them after they had SZ STSSS; "iSSii TZZ necessary if they wanted to take those Jobs, fed many of them, gaye them SSSSSSTJiSr For the war service of the Salvation Army is still under way. Its worsers nouteand"' reception of the boys returning irom abroad are In full swing here. Neither, the Salvation Army asserts, wlU Its war work be abandoned until th last bov Is out of the khaki of the army or the blue of the navy. The larger activities whlcn necessitates we coming ' campaign will exist and be flnanced Independently 01 we of the fighters from aoroau. JoTsaLb A pair of mules. 7 and 8 !rv, olTrisDectively, weigh 1,100 lbs. each Sound and solid. CaiHe seen at MADR1N & STOKES stables Matt- hews st, Jiuzaoeiu uiij-. - -r--; pM9-lt. cheap. Make Pledge on ;,vrA - s Wf . - , : : " v" ''l HERE ; n of the most remarkable rcMncMT'e T tha riaht is n..nsnL- M;nhwav Commission. To the Mr,aar Bates of Portsmouth. Va. The ct the stone marker on the banks of the historical Dismal Swp Canal, which irm u- A.iAin i;n between the states of North Carolina and Virginia. The camera caught them as they were pledging their unqualified support to j.1 : j. x. u..:i,i - n.rmsnAn hiahwav between Elizabeth City and Ports - mouth. Va, via South Mills and the Dismal Swamp Canal. T Jower picture -i . ..,., Mm..d of members of members of the Portsmouth City Council u. j.u.iAnm.nt of this hiahwav. The j i. PriH.v. where these men u. nMntl hiahwav. The Drooosed L.k PArtimnuth to 45 miles rand wrh Cralln. and with the vuunj " " - . Va. and vicinity. TUESDAY, MAY 13 IS EECTION DAY Result of Municipal Election Depends upon The Activ ity of Good Citizens Tuesday, May 13 is election day in Elizabeth City for the election Gf a Board of Aldermen, Two aldermen will be elected wards in from eacn OI me lour warns in tne city. The voter has no other . . x, . voice m the government of this town The aldermen when elec- ted appoint a Mayor and a City Manager. The City Manager ap- points all Otner omciaiS, Wltn the approval of the Board of Al- Mermen. The kind of adminis- . ration Elizabeth City will get , . , ,n aAc, !iul Lue uvw uclmo upon the calibre of the Board of Aldermen they elect next Tues- I ' Th nftonle of Elizabeth ,4.1, vilj cue axwuou ""j were before and earnestly desire change in the pohtical . . , B 0 . . .. , administration of the city. They wJ11 gee nQ change if they do not desire into action and Put their desire into action ana get out and work and VOte for honorable men in the election next Tuesday. No tax payer in this town can put in a better days work with more profit to himself and to the community than to lay his personal affairs agide and spend every minute of U ttae next Tuesday in the WOrk of electing a decent set of Aldernieili The man who sticks ! to his own self interests on that day W1u nave no KICK coming politicians continue to control the City. ENTERTAINED ON BIG SCALE A deu&ntf Ul entertainment was given at L walker's, Barco, Currituck coun- ty saturday, May 3. in honor of the re turn of his two sons, Jack T. and Den- nis S. Walker, who have been in the army overseas. More than 1Q0, guests 1 were present. Ice cream, cake and Qtner thingra were 8erved and every one had a good time. bine pictures ever snapped by THE INDE W. J. Woodley, Chairrtjn:of the Pas- left and clasping hhand' is City two men are standing ron: either side the Pasquotank Highway Commission and other prominent men interested picture was made orf th m boun- had met after goingi dyer the.-route road will cut the distne'.-from;EUxa -will, orovide trade .J(iyts f or,M -ot prosperous black land f Wallaceton, WILL LIST ALL PROPERTY AT ITS REAL VALUATION J. P. Thompson Supervisor of Tax Re valuation In Pasquotank County P. H. Williams, president of the Sav ings Bank & Trust Co. of .Elizabeth City has been appointed District Tax Supervisor under the Revaluation Act, with a salary of $250 a month and ex penses. Mr; Williams will supervise the revaluation of taxes in the 14 coun ties embraced in the first congressional district J. P. Thompson, former auditor of Pasquotank county and more recently Clerk of the United States Court at Elizabeth City, has been appointed Tax Supervisor of Pasquotank county. It will be his business for the next twelve months to put every piece of real and personal property in Pasquotank coun ty on the tax books at its real valua tion. Mr. Thompson win receive a sal ary of about $200 a month for his work. Mr. Williams and Mr. Thompson went to Goldsboro Tuesday night where they attended a conference of the tax super visors of all the eastern North Carolina counties, the object of the conference being to familarize the conferees with the details of the new tax legislation. Mr. Thompson will begin immediately to re -assess property in this county. He will take one township at a time until the job is completed. As he com pletes the revaluation of the property in a township he will call a meeting of the board of appraisers of which he is nViairman. The other members of the Board of Appraisers are J. W. "Wil cox and J. W. Perry. It will be the duty of this board to hear complaints and to generally review and approve the work of the county supervisor. It's a man's job that the county su pervisors of taxation have ahead of them. It's going to be hard to convince some folks that they have got to tell the truth about their property. It's going to be hard to deal with the man who has been listing property at $10 an acre that he wouldnt sell for $100 an acre. It's going to be hard to get the value of live stock from men who have been listing good milch cows at $10 head. But Jim Thompson of Pasquotank says he feels strong enough for the job and he assures this newspaper that he is going to carry out the letter and the spirit of the law. Taxes for 1919 will be collected on the basis of the 1918 revaluation. The revaluation will not be effective until a special session of the legislature has been called and the tax rate reduced to conform to the new valuation. It is believed that an hon est revaluation will give Pasquotank a tax rate., of ; about 30 cents on the hundred instead bf a rate of 90 and some cents based on the present ficti tious values. - Very State Will Deliver Address Here June 5th LIEUT. COL. SAM. T. ANSELL - ' LIEUT. COL. ANSELL will deliver the Commencement Address at the Eliza beth City High School on Thursday evening, June 5. This announcement will ceate unusual interest in Elizabeth City because of Col. AnselPs unique posi tion before the public at this time. Col. Ansell received his early education in Elizabeth City and was a graduate of the old Atlantic Collegiate Institute in this city under Prof. S. L. Sheep, who is now superintendent of the Elizabeth City Graded Schools. , . -. .' '; LITTLE, BUT HE'S LOUD THE accompanying picture, snapped bv W. O. Saunders, shows Dr. B. C. Henina. pastor of First Baptist Church of Elizabeth City, mounted on a War Tank making a Victory Loan speech On that occasion he raised $18,000 in about 12 minutes. Whenever there s money raising to be done for any good and worthy cause, this man Hening's on the job. In size he's the smallest parcel of ministerial sinew in Elizabeth City, but he looms large ana Dooms 1 tUni who know mm. no OUU 11 1 vi 1 rU a sneech at Salem Baptist church , m last Sunday and rolled up a handsome ist of Victory Loan subscriptions in that church. When there's money be raised the call goes out for nening. He never disappoints. YOUNG FRED SH1PP THE VICTIM OF FOUL PLAY Stabbed and One Lung Laid Open by Colored Boy in New Bern i-as Sunday T?fl ShiDD. 14 year old son of F. H. v, formerly of this city but now with the Pepsi Cola Co. at New Bern, was stabbed by a Negro ooy x Bern last Sunday and is lying in a New Bern hospital witn a 8" inches long and three inches deep in one lung. The stabbing caused a near riot in New Bern and three Negroes are in jail pending the recovery or death of young Shipp. HATHAWAY SAYS If you wear glasses, have your eyes and glasses both examined from time to time, and go to the place where you can afford to pay a reason able price for real professional work. Remember your eyes are your bread-winners. Take care of them. You have your teeth ex amined twice a year. Why not vour eyes? . They are more important. DR. I. D. HATHAWAY Optometrist Bradford Bldg. Phone 999 1 U O A. "5 ' Wa ' lis v 3 k,: a ' " EVERY TOWN ITS OWN LAW MAKER Elizabeth City Can Change Its Form of Government Without . Having to Go to The Uninformed persons are saying that the City Manager form of government in RHzabeth Citv can not be given a fair trial until the Legislature of North Carolina is appealed to to make some changes in the charter of Elizabeth City and in the act creating the office of City Manager in this town.- We are told that the Legislature must give us authority to elect our Aldermen from the city at large and curtail the powers of the office of Mayor. . Perhaps it will interest the people of Elizabeth City and other North Caro Una towns to know that they don't have to go to the Legislature of North Caro lina to change anything. The power to revise, amend or abolish the charter of any town in North Carolina lies in the voters of that town. Under the Municipal Machinery Act of 1917. 25 per cent, of the qualified voters of any town or city may force the County Board of Elections of their county to call a special election. In this election, when called, the voters can adopt any of seVeral plans of government, in cludmg the initative, referendum and recall. One of these plans or govern ment provided by this Municipal Mach- ir-TT Ant rails for a Board of live 411V4 j Aldermen elected by the town at large, regardless of ward boundaries. The alderman receiving the largest number of votes is declared Mayor of the town He functions as Chairman of the Board A.lA&Trfn anil nothing more. This Board of Aldermen then appoints City Manager, who does not have to be a resident of the city or of tne state He is appointed for no specific term and nan be dismissed when he fails to per form his duties to the satisfaction of the administration and the people Elizabeth City does not have to wait for a Legislature to do this. The Legis lature has said that the towns ana cit- ies of North Carolina snouia govern themselves and the power lies in thei people of this town to change their form of government wnenever mey wish, and as often as they wish. If the people of Elizabeth Uity want to change their form of government this newspaper will show them how to do it and give them all the informa tion they will -require. The legisla ture has given the people the authority to. act and men who tell you to go to the Legislature for municipal legislation are either uninformed or are purposely giving you misleading advice. Eliza beth City and every other North Caro lina town can have any form of gov ernment it wants, without waiting for a bt-ennial session of the Legislature? APRON SOCIAL MAY 15. The Parsonage Society of City Road Methodist Church will give an Apron Social in the church annex next Thurs day night, May 15. A good program has been arranged and the public is in vited to attend. Refreshments will be served free. FOR: SALE: Pure Bred Duroc Jersey Pigs eight to ten, weeks old. entitled to riHrtration. A. E. COHOON, City pM9-2t. SAYS NINE FOOT ROADENOUGH Government Expert Inspects Roads From Elizabeth City To Virginia Pasquotank County and northeast ern North Carolina may have to adopt a nine foot single track cement road for their first permanent hard surfaced highways. It is altogether probable that the State Highway Commission will not approve any other width of road for state and federal aid any time soon. This newspaper gets this in timation from W. L. Spoon, of the United States Bureau of Roads who was here last Friday for the purpose of inspecting and reporting upon road projects calling for state and federal aid, in this vicinity. Mr. Spoon has been loaned to the State Highway Com mission by the Federal Bureau. The State Highway Commission sent him , here to get his opinion as to which ol the two proposed interstate highway projects should receive state and fed- 7 eral aid. ; Mr. Spoon went over "the proposed route from Elizabeth City to the Vir ginia state line via South Mills and , the Dismal Swamp Canal. He was im pressed with the need of this project, not only as an interstate highway, but as a feeder for the great state highway system. Mr. Spoon then went over the route of the proposed highway between Eliz abeth City and the Virginia Una via Shawboro, Snowden and Moyock. He followed the meanderings of .this road and observed that it crossed the Nor folk Southern Rail Road seven times between Elizabeth- City and North west. He noted all the swamps and bogs that would have to be overcome. , And he noted something of the im mense population to be served by this road. He thought the road from Eliz abeth City to Moyock should parallel the N. S. R.R. and not cross and re cross that rail road every few miles. And after looking over , both routes Mr. Spoon Indicated that he did not believe that state and federal aid would be available for both roads and if the idea was to build double track roads; but that state and federal aid would be available for both roads if both roads were of less expensive single track construction. And Mr. Spoon said emphatically- that a nine foot road was -all the road we needed and all the road we should attempt to build until we had more experience in road build ing and had more money to build with. f "jilj! ;; cement road and gets off in the mud, he is not so much concerned with the width of the road as with its length. It is better to build narrower roads and more roads, than to use up all your appropriation in a shorter mileage of double track roads. Asked what he considered an ideal type of, construction for this country, Mr. Spoon said he favored a 25 foot road with nine feet of government standard cement paving in the center. The eight feet of dirt on each side should be sown in Bermuda grass which makes a firm sod that does not easily wash or break down under light traffic. The cement should have a curb on each side, to prevent it break ing off along the edges under traffic. The idea that a nine foot road is not wide enough is an idea born in the minds of persons who have never used such roads and who don't know what they are talking about, says Mr. Spoon. And this man Spoon is a road builder of many years experience; in fact, he is the man who first discovered and applied the formula of the modern sand clay road. It is not very often in a Journey that one has to turn out fo ranother vehicle on the road," says Mr. Spoon, and when one does have to turn out on a nine root roaa ne siiu nas two wheels on hard paving and never has to slacken his speed." And so this man Spoon went back to Raleigh last Saturday with the opinion that Elizabeth City and her neighbor ing counties need two roads into Vir ginia and that we ought to get state and federal aid for both and probably will get state and federal aid for both on the basis of single track cement construction. This newspaper feels that it understood Mr. Spoon thoroly, because this newspaper had a repre sentative with him on both tours of inapectIon. PASQUOTANK TAKES ITS QUOTA WITHOUT DELAY But Chowan Beat Her To It in The, Victory Loan Campaign, Hav ing 8maller Quota Pasquotank went Over the Top with a few thousands to spare, in the vic tory Liberty Loan campaign Thursday night, May 2, while the rest of the country was two thirds in arrears or its quota. One other northeastern North Carolifcia county outdistanced Pasquotank; Chowan went over with a 20 per cent, oversubscription the day before Elizabeth City closed. J. H. McMullan, Jr., was chairman of the Chowan Victory Loan Committee and personally did most of the work in that county; Chowan's quota being $115, 000. W. P. Duff, Chairman for Pasquo tank had to pull across with a quota of $351,000. L C. Relfe, farmer and merchant of Durant's Neck, well known thruout this city and section, is in the Root Cancer Hospital in Indianapolis, ' Ind., under going an operation ' for. cancer. mm - ihf 4 li' i. 'f i' -s is. m in I Ml i ml. i':. ! Vi' m :r. Ki- ' ' K ' 1 if - V.--!' 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