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'1'""": '. '.,. ''"' ' ,' ' "'y s V-"-'1 " ' ' ' ' ' ' - v ............... t . . K .v' v ' . ' VOL. XIII. NO. 680. Entered as Second Class Matter at the Post-offlo at 3isabeth Cits. N. C. Juno 9. 1908 . ,. ELIZABETH CITY; N; C FRIDAY, APRIL 8, 1921. St:S!?SC.F?aT T W. O. Bannders at WINDER CASE CAMPAIGN Crusade Against Spooning, Dancing and Theatre ouixig wy rae.Rev. yv imams xve- signed Presidency of Ministerial Association. A moral and spiritual clean-up campaign in Elizabeth City was launched at a mothers' and min isters' meeting under the aus pices of the local W. C. T. U. held in the assembly, room of the Y. II C. A. Wednesday afternoon. Just as national clean-up week is going- after tin cans, Vubbish heaps, dirty back yards and dis eased humanity this week, just so will the militant church folk of this gay old town go after jazz-spirited girls, licentious young men, back-sliding married men and incontinent married women. At the same time mov ing pictures are slated for . a slaughter. The campaign begins with a mass meeting for adults only at the First Baptist Church in this city Sunday night, April 17. The campaign was launched at one of the most sensational and unique meet ings ever held in this city of sensations. The meeting was prompted by the start ling facts brought out in the case of K L. Winder, local real estate man, who was indicted last week on several charg es of improper conduct with girls in shorts skirts. Winder's case is docketed for a preliminary hearing in the Re corders Court Monday morning, April 11. Winder's attorneys threaten to ex pose a terrible condition in Elizabeth City and it is hinted that the names of other men will be dragged into the mess. Winder is not only bold enough to face the thing and fight? it out, but will not hesitate, it is said, to involve others in an effort to destroy the characters of the prosecuting witnesses and thereby secure a mitigation or pumsnment ior himself. . , .- - ' '. . Ministers" Hear "Too ' Maiiy Sex Stories. That was a steamy meeting: at the T. M. C. A. Wednesday and the argu ments would make a volume of thrill ers. " It was brought out at the meet ing that Rev. H. K. Williams, pastor of First Baptist Church, has resigned as President of the Ministerial Associa tion because to him "the Ministerial As sociation had degenerated into little more than a gossip club at which sex stories were retailed week after week. Pastor Williams said he was so tired of hearing stories of the sex life, of Eliza beth City people week after week that he had resigned as president of the As sociation. And then Mr. Williams told a story himself. He said that one of the older male members of his church had told him that he thought he would have to quit wearing his spectacles be cause the sights he saw of women in short skirts plagued his soulThe poor brother had seen one short skirt trans acting business in a Bank, that was so short and so enticing that he almost for got his own business with the bank. Open that window! Ex-Communication For Movie Goers. Hut Pastor Williams was soon to be eclipsed. Rev. Geo. Studson DeLano, pastor of the Church of the Good Shep herd, took the floor and told them a few things. He said most of the im morality in this town could be traced to moving pictures and indecent clothing. And before he got thru he said the churches didn't have back-bone enough to fight the evils of the day and ac cused the churches of being more con cerned with diplomacy than with relig ion. He gave a bold and intimate de scription of a young girl in short skirts and low neck drtss in the hot embraee of a giddy-headed boy in a hot ball room. T1k contact of warm, excited and pleas ur; loving flesh was just too much; girls in such situations were bound to go. to t!:: bad. Pastor DeLano has been .a youngster himself and he is a graduate h h:edieine. He says he knows. Acd then he went on to condemn the lilies of the present generation of o-ijcn. He says they are designed by ami for Parisian prostitutes and we send ) Parisian prostitutes for our feminine stvi' s. "Decent women in Paris would i.'t wear such clothes." Pastor DeLano -:is he has lived in Pans and knows v.!::!t he is talking about. tun. mnvinir niVtnres were worse I -.:'!. And Rev. DeLano brought out the -i.rtHng fact that members of his ,-,- -h are asked to sign a pledge not - ,-o to the Alkrama Theatre, and when ,e is discovered to have broken the l-V.lse he or she is ex-communicated in- ttor and thrust into chaos and fclack !.-!,t. He thinks every church in- the -.y should adopt the-same drastic meap- ur, against the Alkrama Theatre." : !a meantime the women were talking; o.p.ctimes several pf them aU at - once. .M-:. j. w. Modlin, vigorous, . militant 'i most positive m ner - in her utterances too floor and demanded that tne i i i Thentre he closed UP at once ,'j.ne . . i.- -a. 4r ;iif- tirrw. rShe v,.s finally persuaded that confiscating another's business could only be accom, plished by due process of 'law. and that, i.i. n- ill nn ir WHS XMvv, VS"V - STIRS UP f AGMNSTPCI the business had some rights . that car ried a long way with the law. Wants Men Looked After.. ' Mrs. Jay Scott, a prominent worker in First Baptist Church, fcot the floor and said she thought the sins of young girls bad been too much -stressed and that they ought to do something with tne men. She said if she heard things right, married men of this town needed a drubbing and that any crusade against immorality should make licentious and corrupt men the main objective. She believed that male lawyers and the free masonry of men of Winder's type would get. Winder, out of his troubles with a clean bill of health or a minimum pen alty. She had known the escapades "of men to be covered up. But the world never let up on an erring woman. - It is utterly impossible to chronicle everything brought out at Wednesday's meeting. It was even charged that the Community Rest Room in. the Hinton Building, once maintained -by the mer chants, now - maintained by the private purse of a philanthropic woman, is used for immoral purposes. That's nothing, whispered one woman to another who .told of a couple using the front porch of a fashionable home on Pennsylvania Avenue while the fam ily was in the house. And the wife of the house, coming down stairs in the dark for something discovered them. Open some more windows! The meeting became a riot of talk and it was restrained with difficulty. ' A few cool heads like Rev. J. M. Ormond of First Methodist Church finally sub dued the tumult and got down to brass tacks. .Mr. Ormond told of the efforts of the ministers to persuade the pro prietors' of the Alkrama to improve the moral tone of the local screen. He said the Movie men had promised anything but that promises had not been kept. Asked for a statement about the meet ing and just what he himself had to say, Mr. Ormond politely declined. Mr. Or mond was a6ked for a statement because he js now president of tbA Ministerial Association, succeeding the Rev. Wll liams. MR. KING HERE IN INTEREST OF CANAL If Government Does fclot Purchase Dis mal Swamp Canal, Elizabeth City Is The Loser. M. K. King, president of the. Dismal Swamp Canal Co., who was in Elizabeth City this week in conference with Cham ber of Commerce officials and prominent citizens, insists that if Elizabeth City loses the Dismal Swamp Canal it will be because of the apathy of Elizabeth City. Prior to the opening free of toll the government owned Chesapeake & Albe marle canal, the Dismal Swamp Canal carried 75 to 80 per cent of the water borne commerce between the Chesapeake Bay and the inland waters of North Carolina. The Dismal Swamp Canal was a money maker in its day arid under the management of Mr. King it paid off its indebtedness, made extensive im provements and put aside a surplus. That surplus is fast, being exhausted, since traffic vhas been , diverted to the free government canal miles away from Elizabeth City. ' An effort is being made to persuade Congress to buy the Dismal Swamp Ca nal and maintain it in the interest of the cities of Elizabeth City and Hamp ton Roads and in the interest of the 25,000 people who, could Be profitably served by this canaL Mr. King wants the active support of Elizabeth City people of influence in urging Congress to consider the purchase. SOME ECONOMIC-FACTS FROM CITY DIRECTORY Here are some little economic facts revealed' by the new city directory of Elizabeth City. Elizabeth City has 17 lawyers and 29 preachers. And even 46 lawyers and preachers can't keep us all straight, tho they all manage to make a living trying. ' JThere are also 90 retail grocers in Elizabeth City, or an average of a groc ery store for every 25 families, if we courvfive to a family. The ratio is '-worse than that, but then we must r -'-' i j-4 oc t admit tnac our puyuiawuu mall as given by the last c en sus . Of the 29 preachers in Eteabeth City, 12 are white and .17 are gloved But of the 17 lawyers there is enly one col- ored. The. list pi 90 retail grocerie, does not include nine- wholesale ,groc- - eries, say nothing of .jobbers. Some things the directory does not M8 does ot a .dairy, a public :lhrary,,a hospital, a city park, or a play , ground, as well; as; some s other , things a proud citizen is ashamed to mention. ' . -,V. - r . . tha .WPflWhiest -.omi men 'in (jumoenauu cvuulj, 'Kfiieide at his home -about nve miies- . .. . ... j. from Fayetteville by Rowing xne 0f his. head off with a double barrelled shot gun. - .. -.. :-. Drainage Owes Much a Afe 'Miin Jl C , ' mm m?; ; . i ' ',xi:. ,,:,.. i . ,mnn , T , , DR. JOSEPH HYDE PRATT, ; . ; Director North Carolina Geological and Eeonomio Purvey "and Secretary of the Drainage Association. Dr. Pratt has been Secretary of the Association since Ms organization in 1908, with the exception of one year when he was president. As Director of the Geological and Economic Survey he has -largely had charge of the administration of. the drainage law. 1 ALDERMEN HAVE RECEIVE OFFER But Will Not Buy Electric Light and Water Plants Until ' ; ; People Are Heard. . ' The Board of Aldermen of Elizabeth City have received a proposition from The Electric Light Co. of Elizabeth City and its associated water and sewer age companies, looking to the purchase of these properties by the city. Col. Dabney H. Maury, of Norfolk, who was employed by the city as an advisory en gineer several months ago, was called to the city this week to confer with the Aldermen on the proposition now before them. Just how much the Baltimoreans, who own these public service properties, want for them is not revealed. Mayor Gaither deems it inadvisable to make the offer public,, but candidly states that he considers it a high figure and assures the public that the Aldermen will take no action until the proposition is sub mitted to the tax payers of the city for their approval. That Elizabeth City will have to pur chase the existing electric light,, water and sewerage properties, or ' build its own electric light, water and sewerage plant outright is a foregone conclusion. The city must have sewerage and the owners of the sewerage company have thrown up their hands. The ity ig thus forced into municipal ownership of sew erage. Sewerage is so . bound up with the water problem that the city must own water works in "connection with its sewerage. Again, the existing water works are bound up ,with the electric light proposition. And so there is noth ing for Elizabeth City to do but plunge wholesale into municipal ownership of lieht. water and sewerage. How to go about it? That's the question with which the Board of Aldermen is wrest ling determinedly right now and some thing is about to come to a head. CUBS TO PLAY EDENTON. The Elizabeth City Cubs baseball team will journey to Edenton Friday after noon to play the- much tooted Edenton club. The Cubs was the only . Elizabeth Cifv team, without help from, other teams, to defeat the strong Edenton nine last year, and did it on the Edenton grounds. They are determined to turn the trick again Friday. Governor' Canreron' Morrison and State Treasurer B. R. Lacy are in New York this week, and will visit other, financial "Centers to investigate the feasibility of a present issue 'of bonds or the sale of short term notes," to provide for road construction, and institutional expansion authorized by- the 1921 session of the General Assembly. Probable .. demands for upwards of 15 million dollars . for roads and institutional buildings" during the fiscal year ' is confronting the Gov ernor and his cabinet. The total of the immediate issue : is -said to be around five million dollars. . -' ; THE INDEPENDENT UNTIL JA Having reduced the subscrip tion price of THE INDEPEND ENT to the old price of $1.50 a year, I am now prepared to" make this introductory offer of a little better than eight months for $1.00. Send your, check, P. O. Money Order or a Dollar Bill, and get THE INDEPENDENT until Jan. 1, 1922, 47 weeks, be ginning with the next issue all for $1.00. Old subscribers whose time has expired may avail them selves of this offer. Address THE INDEPENDENT, Elizabeth City, N. C. DIPPING OF CATTLE IS STILL COMPULSORY Defeat of State-Wide Compulsory Tick Eradication Bill In No Way Re scinds Previous . Legis lation. 1 Notwithstanding the fact that the re cent session of the General Assembly of lOrth Carolina made no change . in the laws respecting tick eradication work, manyk farmers labor under the im pression that the defeat of. a state-wide compulsory dipping bill effectively re scinded all previous legislation. This is not true. The1Tuthority to impose regulations respecting -the dipping of cattle was vested in the State Department of Ag riculture, by an act of a previous ses sion of the General Assembly. This act has not heen repealed. ' The Supreme Court has held as to the validity of that Act, in the test case from Beau fort county. . County Commissioners and agents of the . Department of Agriculture will therefore proceed in' tick eradication" work with their old-time authority. Hatha wav Savs 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 reasons-able price for real professio-.. nal work. Remember your eyes are your bread-winners. Take care of them. ., You have your teeth ex amined twice a . yea,r. ' Why , not you eyes? They, are -more important. . v T Dr. J. D. Hatha wav , Optometrist. Phone 999 BraJ'.irh Hldg iMW) It " ! ; . . . . . i . : : VOTE TO-DAY FOR BETTER SCHOOLS To-day, Friday, April 8,. should go down in history as one of the biggest - days in the history;: of Elizabeth City. To-day the citi zens of Elizabeth City v will vote on, 'the question of a bond issue of $4C,000 for public schools in Elizabeth City. With $400,000 Elizabeth City can pay ,off the present floating indebtedness on the schools, acquire more school grounds ' and ' build x and equip modern school' buildings to com pare with, any in the state, t -There is no mistake about the heed of this investment in larger arid better equipped schools. If is not-, alone :v the opinions, of teachers, students and parents of the town that this investment is needed but Federal experts have surveyed bur schools, shown the defects of our present, equipment and methods and emphasized our needs. .... ' We are told that a bond issue of $406,000 will increase! our tax rate 16 cents on the 100. That is a small price to pay for good schools. The biggest tax payers in- the city are in favor of the bond issue. Surely the smaller tax. payers can not protest; A workingman has given this newspaper his reason why he will vote for the bond issue. He says : "I have five children. I would like to leave them at least $10,000 a piece when I die; but that is put of the question;. I will never be able to lay up that much money. BUT IF I CAN LEAVE THEM A GOOD EDUCATION THEY WILL HAVE WHAT'S WORTH MORE THAN $10,000. A PIECE. And nobody will be able to steal it away, from them. iWingto'volt I issue ana l wui consider ijie xax es, I pay the best money I could ever spend." When workingmeh talk like that it is safe to predict the re sult of to-day's election. The Jr.'O. U. A. M., one of the strong est organizations in the city, composed largely of working men, is solidly behind the bond issue. 'The best men and women in the town are behind the bond issue. And if it fails to carry in to-day's election it will only be because voters stay at home. WARD AMONG FIRST TO LAND IN WASHINGTON New First District Congressman On The Job Early and Knows What - -He Wants. The first of the North Carolina Con gressmen to at rive in ' Washington, is Hon. Hallet S. Ward of the. first dis trict. Congressman Ward ' landed in Washington this week. One of his first acts was to visit the navy department and pay a political debt by naming Grice McMullen, a son of Hon. P. W. McMul Ian of. this city for the vacancy from this district at Annapolis. Upon his ar rival in Washington he talked freely to newspaper men. Speaking of matters in which he would take an interest, Mr. Ward said "anyone from the first district would favor the complete opening of the in land waterway from Norfolk to Beau fort, which would mean a passageway through Hyda county; and them there should be an airplane service along the coast out from Norfolk." Besides this Mr. Ward declared that the civil docket of the federal courts in North Caro lina was so overcrowded that there should be relief; that the oldest cases on the docket jn the Eastern district could never be reached, ho matter how diligent , the judge and ;. that there should be . an inferior court that could handle the cases. He , favored the ' es tablishment of federal , courts, like re corders court's with a commissioner to preside', the. cases to be heard by jury, the stipulation to be that only a lawyer, and a good lawyer at that should be a commissioner. . . v . ' ? I ' . : : i '. . - MUNCIPAL ELECTION TUESDAY, MAY . IOfH. The Board of Aldermen of Eliza-- beth City have designated Tuesday, May 10, 1921, as the date of the bi-ennial election of Aldermen and Mayor of -Elizabeth City. ..Official notice of the election. appears- else- where In this "newspaper. Two mem- hers of the Board of Aldermen ae- to be elected from each ward and the-city at laroV will elect a Mayor. . . V- :-- ''- nn 1 TTI A in nfTMnm ! UKuiWifc Mtti WILL BRING BIG MM HERE Federal Farm tBoaid; Interstate Commerce vmimssion, JU.: Public WealthvService, To Be ; . ; National Prominence. CHAMBER COMMERCE VITES FARMERS Applaud tar heeiors Portsmouthians Banquet and Boost For Dismal Swamp Highway To This City . lore' than 250 citizens of Portsmouth, Va. and their -guests gathered at a ban quet in that city last Thursday night gave a rousing ovation to Walter Li. Cohoon, of Elizabeth' City after he had made a thirty-minute address, on the need for .an" improved highway eeunect ing the state highway system of I'Torth Carolina and Virginia via Portsmouth and Elizabeth City. The audience had listened to other "speaters, hat Cohoon brought down the house. The 'crowd cheered and applauded. Hand dapping wasnt enough. 'Those otherwise mild mannered Portsmffflthians' pounded with their feet. They liked the North Car olina' brand of spread-eagle oratory; they wanted more of it- And they sot it. . Next on the program was Congress man Hallet Ward. . WaroTs voice ' woe never in better condition and Ward had sized up his . audience. He knew vwhat they wanted and' he let them hare it with all his punchy pep and humor. ' He was in good form, knew it and made the most of it. And when he said his speech the Portsmouthians cheered some more. The occasion was a banquet given by the Portsmouth Branch of the' Virginia Good Boads Association in- honor of the Virginia State Highway .Commission. It was the occasion of-that. Commission's first visit to. Portsmouth. Portsmouth was out to do them honor and, inci dentally to let them know what Ports mouth wanted at .the hands of the Com' mission, - And ' wbat'Portsmontb. ' wants faiAn iai w-knvt aa-it-i 4-V a ainp IJyN-o mouth with the city of Elizabeth City, via Deep Creek,. Va., the Dismal Swamp Canal and South Mills, N. C. The route is nearly an airline and puts Elizabeth City ten miles nearer Norfolk and Ports- month than any other", route. Pasquo tank is building a brick road from Eliz abeth City to a point in! upper Pasquo tank near South' Mills. More than three miles of this Toad has already been con structed and the work is proceeding rap idly. It is purposed ; to tie 4 Jhis road with the State' Highway1 system, via Gates county. The building of-the' Dis mal Swamp road, then eventually means much, not only, to the ' .Virginians . and the people pf upper Pasquotank and Camden counties, but to the people of Gates and other counties as well. - And Portsmouth wants toconnect up with North Carolina. Portsmouth city has already appropriated $20,000 ( to build a good dirt road eleven miles long from Deep Creek, Va; to the North Car olina line, on the banks of the . Dismal Swamp Canal.' South Mills township in Camden county has bonded for $50,000 and will issue and her people will un derwrite enough of these bonds to build a good, dirt road from South Mills to the Virginia; line along the canal, - to meet the Virginians. There, is already a cement road from Deep .! Creek ''to Portsmouth. We are building 'a .. brick road from Elizabeth City to South Mills nearly. It is less than 42 miles from Elizabeth City to Portsmouth via South Mills, the canal bank and Deep Creek. ' Portsmouth conceived the idea of . a national coast line highway from Wash ington, D. C. to the Florida Everglades, and Portsmouth enterprise made the Dismal Swamp canal route a link in that projected national highway. . A . bill . em bodying this idea was introduced in Con gress and was killed in the Senate. But if just . shows hpw important, those Portsmouthians regard this Dismal Swamp route. ' " : 1 V And so the. object, of the banquet' in Portsmouth . last Thursday night was to interest the Virginia Highway Commis sion in that Dismal Swamp Boad. Ports mouth; wants, that road included in. the Virginia state highway : system and made a hard surfaced road. k How much -of an impression they made upon the high way commissioners is problematical, of course; but something "of , an. impression was made.'"' " " . ". , Friday following fc banquet the Portsmouthians took tne Commissioners over the proposed route, using automo biles from Portsmouth to ;Deep Creek and a launch from Deep Creek to: the North Carolina line, via. the. canal. ' Several ' North Carolinians ; ;.were guests of the Portsmouthians Thursday night." They were .Hon. H. S. Ward, of Washington; 7.r"Ii. ohoonr'and-W. O. Saunders, of Elizabeth 'City; D. E. Williams, Charles Williams, " " Frank Riggs and ' W. I. '. Halstead, : of ' South Mais. ' -. . , ' :;" The' Master plumbers of North Caro lina will meet in annual session in Golds boro, AprjOU21 and 22.v. " ,' .... ,v . Hon. A. F. Lever himself, of the Federal Farm Loan Board, and author of the famous Lever Act, will 'be one of the principal speakers at the convention of the North Carolina Drainage Asso- . ciation which meets in Elizabeth City next Tuesday and Wednes day, April 12 and 13. The com ing of Mr. Lever is expected to bring hundreds of farmers to the convention, because hevwill talk not so much upon drainage '. as ' upon the question of federal loans for farmers. It takes money .to finance even a drainage project and the subject uppermost in the minds of the agricultural classes ' at this time is money. Mr. Lever speaks Tuesday morning, shortly after the opening of the conven- tipn. The farmers of the nation will listen thru the press to hear." what he has to say in Elizabeth ' city. : . ; . ; A cordial invitation to the farmers of this section to hear Mr. Lever and attend the ses sions ,-of the convention is ex tended by the Chamber"of Com merce. ' The Drainage Convention which holds , its sessions here next week will bring to Elizabeth City the greatest gathering ' of eminent statesmen, engineers, capi talists and agricultural -experts ever as sembled in Elizabeth City... Big men are ' on the program of every session of that convention. r-j '- 4iffrk W. Pottfeinf "'the"- InterBtete f Commerce Commission and owner of the Potter Farms, will be here to tell about the dairying possibilities .of eastern North Carolina and of the successful de velopment of a large, scale thorobred live stock industry on the Potter Farms. Dr. T. H. D. Griffits of the U. S. Public Health Service; S. II. McCrory, drainage engineer of the U. S Depart mentof . Agriculture; Dr. Joseph Hyde Pratt7 director of the North CaroliM Geological and Geodetic- Survey; Clar ence Poe of. the Progress Earmer; W. A. McGirt, manager of the N. C. Land owners' Association and member of the State Highway Commission; Msbr W. A. Graham, Commissioner of Agriculture ; H. M. Lynde, F. P. Bartel, W. P. Pate and others from the Department of "Ag riculture. ' And Josephus Daniels is ex pected to be here. V- A WoVking Convention. .. Hon; John H. Small,, president of the Association, and Dr. Joseph Hyde" Pratt, secretary, were in Elizabeth City tnis week m conference with Secretary R. C. Job of the Elizabeth City Cham ber of Commerce. . The. convention will be held ia the' Chamber of Commerce rooms and the Chamber of Commerce will leok ; after the comfort and enter tainment of visitors. The proposed trip to the 'delegates has been abandoned. . This convention is coming to Elizabeth City on big busi ness and the visitors want it understood that they are more interested in the con vention than in sight-seeing, trips. They will not have time for a trio to the Dis mal Swamps,' the Potter Farms, the Moyock Drainage District or elsewhere. They will cake a short steamer trip down the river and . will submit to a banquet to be given them by the Cham ber of Commerce Tuesday night. The banquet will be at the Southern Hotel and 'music and other forms of enter tainment will accompany the feast. -Tbs newspaper' gives " considerable space . to the Drainage Convention, this week because it- is an event of immense interest and of special value to the agri cultural interests of this section. ' Since this drainage association was organized ' more than 150 drainage projects have . been put . thru - and more than 600,000 acres , of desert and inundated lands re claimed. There are hundreds of thous ands; of other acres to be reclaimed and drainage is ye to be employed exten sively in improving millions of acres of lands already in cultivation. In fact the convention next " week ; will. ,j deal largely with the question of making drainage serve - the 'needs of 'that , larger class of farmers whose cultivated lands are iot properly drained and can never bejdrained by ditching, ..which carries the water off one farm to put it on another Great areas like the Newland section of ' Pasquotank, for instance, need drainage canals miles in length to carry off heavy . rainfalls which literally drown theci out every 'libree or four years. , : - v ". More about the convention rani the work 'oft the.' Drainage, Association will be found tn a" special illustrated , -'article ; on the subject prepared especially for' this ,, newspaper -by, Decjtor,Pratti i ! i as m A M'l "ii tit- n pi mm Hi 4 ! :-?3 ir i' 1 .-. !' 1 e i