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Volume Xlll. Eight Pages Ahoskie, North Carolina, Friday, July 14, 1922 One Section No. 11
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ADDRESS OF PRESIDENT
OF TOBACCO ASSOCIATION
Following are extracts from the
address of President T. M. Carrington
at the annual session of the Tobacco
Association o'f the United States held
in' Richmond last weeek.
last week.
He said that the co-operative move
ment among the tobacco growers
"was very interesting indeed", but
that "the fanner must take his bad
with his good, with the understanding
that when an over-production it
made tobacco sells low and is bought
by people who have got to hold it and
take considerable chances on over
coming this very expensive tendency."
Mr. Carrington also said:
"We are facing in the biggest sort
of way a great many tremendous is
sues. Congress has now under con
sideration the bonus, the tariff and
the merchant subsidy bills, the pass
age of any of which will, I fear have
a bad effect on the country."
He declared that he "did not believe
for an istant that the straight think
ing^ intelligent boys-y>f our country,
who so magnificently went to war
should want to be put on a plane with
those who stayed at home, and got
big wages, or the profiteers."
Referring to the tariff he said that
the enactment of the Republican
measure "would add a tremendous ex
pense on the general public to the en
hancement of a few, who in so many
instances have already shown that too
much money has spoiled their proper
viewpoint of life."
In regard to the co-operative move
ment he said:
"A big factor in the large crop of
bright tobacco planted this year is
the hope held out to them of co-opera
tive selling, which was explained to
the farmers that by holding their
tobacco in a conglomerate unit and
not pushing it on the market at times
when there was no demand for it that
they could reap immeasurable bene
fits as to prices by having the tobacco
in such shape that if it was not taken
at satisfactory prices in ther green
condition that they could hold it until
a demand, at renumerative prices was
obtained.
"After the large crop of, 1920,
which wu an excedingly common one,
but which was evidently susceptible to
very much improvement, and which
brought disappointingly low prices,
due to stringency in financial condi
tions and large stocks of old Burley
on hand, there was a considerable cur
tailment in this species, and naturally
the farmers were ripe for a co-opera
tive movement, which took place in
a very pronounced way with Lexing
ton Ky., as headquarters for the
movement.
"It is estimated that the Co-Op
ative Association secured about 60
per cent, and prices were fixed at
first corresponding In the main to
the auction sales, and somewhat over
half (possibly the better end of the
crop) has taken up by several
of the largest factors at the satisfac
tory prices. The balance of the
Burley crop has been sold on the
loose floors at satisfactory prices,
which as usual has induced the plant
ing pf a very large crop this year, and
no doubt there will be a demand for
most of the good to fine tobacco....
"The co-operative movement in
three states, Virginia, North and
South Carolina, among the tobacco
farmers, is too big not to be noticed
on this occasion, and it seems now
that we will have a competitor of some
considerable moment and site, but as
their announced purpose is to help
the farmer and not pull down any in
terest, the result of their activities,
in carrying out this theory, will be
very interesting indeed.
"Of course,, if this organisation can
obtain a sufficient percentage of the
crop, control the demand and get a
price that will be satisfactory to the
fanner, and at the same time not so
high as to drive away business, and
can control future acreage, so as not
to have these satisfactory prices bring
about an over-production, then they
will indeed have made considerable
headway to a successful accomplish
ment. T
"The farmer, however, is made of
the same clay as those in other call
ings and is going to be subject to the
same influences. In the past few
years, he has made mistakes, but no
bigger than bankers, manufacturers
or merchants.
"He overproduced, but his tobacco
did not go down as low as furs. silk,
hi >1. or wool, and he has the glorious
privilege of being independent so far
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TRIBUTE TO THE MEMORY
OF MRS. ANNIE. P. SEARS
The close of the earthly career of
this beautiful and beneficent life'
brings to countless hearts unspeakableJ
sorrow. "In the midst of life we are'
in death." On May 4, 1922, Mrs.
Sears came to. Ahoskie apparently,
as well as usual. The following
morning she awoke feeling perfectly1
well, but immediately after dressing j
had a stroke which paralyzed her
whole right side. Drs. Mitchell, Walk- j
er and Pollard did everything in their.
power for her restoration with the!
assistance of three splendid nurses.
It was beautiful to witness the untir
ing devotion and efforts of her chil
dren to do every thing possible for her
comfort, but on July 7Jh at 1:30 p.
m., God called her and she gently left
us to live with Jesus. Our heart
goes out to her bereaved children in]
thiTdeepest sympathy and love. May;
our Father cobifort them with the:
assurance that their mother's depart-;
ure was to be with Christ. Help them !
dear Savior to fully realize that true
meaning of the words, "One tie less:
on earth, one more to bind them to ]
Heaven."
Mrs. Sears was the daughter and
only child of J. T. Wynns and his wife
Sallie Dunn, and was born on Dec.
23rd, 1860. Was educated at Mur-j
freesboro and Staunton, Va., where
she graduated in 1880. She was a
member of the Methodist church Since
she was a girl and she loved her
church and delighted in its service,
her home was the preacher's home.
She was a christian woman, not only
in word but in deed, and has gone to
her reward. Her departure from this:
world was a positive loss, a loss to the
community, a loss to the church, a loss
to her Missionary Society, and
a greater loss to her family. But her
past life is not lost to the world; it
still livls.
On January 24, 1883, she was
married to Dr. W. H. Sears, six child
ren were born to this union, Carl,
whose home, is in Wisconsin; Tommie,
who never left his mother except as a
soldier in the World War; Mrs. H. J. |
Brown, her mother's companion; Mc
Kenzie, who died when a child; Worth,
who is in Wisconsin with his brother;!
James, the youngest, was at the old
home with his mother when not at
school.
The form may have vanished from
out mortal's sight; the loved lips may
be on earth forever hushed, but our
hearts refuse to say that she is dead.
"She is not dead, but sleepeth"?One
who loved her. M. J. F.
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as food is concerned, which others
have not In fact, the fanner is
about the only man making his living
(the balance of us simply trade it out
of each other), but he is a very much
coddled man at present from the
farmers' bloc at the national capital
to the rural influence in every state
legislature, but as there are more of
them than anybody else, the presump
tion is that he is entitled to this un
usual situation.
The tobacco situation, however, has:
a great many angles. The whole crop
that averages 25c is composed of in
dividual crops that sell at from 10c
up to 50c and each farmer sets out
each year with the hope and determi- i
nation of making that 50c crop. The
fluctations in the price of leaf
-tobacco are not desirable, and every
consideration should be given by the
larger factors in making the prices
as uniform as possible, especially in
trying to keep the seasons open as
long as possible and avoiding the
gluts.
"The farmer must, therefore, take
his bad with the good, with the un
derstanding that when an over-pro
duction is made tobacco sells low and
is bought by people who have got to
hold it and take considerable chances
on overcoming this very expensive
contingency."
Addresses by Colonel John L. Bru
ton, Wilson, N. C., and W. Holmes
Davis, president of the Foreign Trade
Club, of Hampton, Va., also featured
today's meeetisg. Following the
morning session a buffet luncheon was
served at 1:30 o'clock this afternoon.
Reports from committees were sched
uled to be submitted at 2:30 o'clock.
At 5 o'clock the delegates will ge on
an automobile tour of the city late
this afternoon.
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J. A. White, a well-known Ken
tucky farmer, said he could beat his
handr shucking corn after taking Tau
lac. C. H. Mitchell. Adv.
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WEATHER EXPERTS ARE
STUDYING THE SUN
Joseph, the long famed weather
prophet of the Bible, who foretold the
seven lean years and the following
seven years of plenty, may one day
be shown up as ? piker by modern
weather forecasters when solar obser
vations being conducted by the Smith
sonian Institute are completed, it is
indicated.
Dr. G. C. Abbot, assistant secretary
of the institution, describing the insti
iation of the heat of the sun, in the
annual report lately made public, de
clares that such compilations are al
ready used by two South American
countries as an aid to weather fore
casting. The institution's researches
which are being closely followed by
scientists all over the world, and may
make long time prognostications as
usual and simple part of weather map
ping.
After many years close observa
tion and a measurement of the heat
radiation from the sun, scientists be
lieve they are now near the goal. It
has been finally determined that the
sun does not throw off a continious
amount of heat from year to year,
from month to month and even from
day to day; that neither does the
earth receive a constant amount of
solar heat; that these variations are
periodic and regular according to
several factors, primarily the sun's ro
tation, and that there is a direct con
nection with the solar variation and
the earth's climate.
The institution, Dr. Abbot said, has
set up apparatus for heat measuring
at various stations around the world,
from which have been computed end
less tables of figures by which the
measurements phowing solar varia
tions have been checked and proved.
While this work is still going on
with the view of co-ordinating the
measurements with earthly weather
| conditions daily observations of the
i "solar constant," or radiation, are
; being furnished from the institution's
j station on Mount Montezuma, Chile,
| to the government bureaus of Argen
tina and Brazil, where they are used
regularly in forecasts. Our own
weather bureau, Dr. Abbq,t added, is
investigating the relations of the
more complicated weather, conditions
of the United States to the radiation
of the sun, and with results which tend
to raise the hope that here, too, the
solar radiation values will be of in
terest and importance in weather fore
casting.
The interesting question has often
been brought up, according to the
article, as to whether the sun may be
gradually losing its heat and declining
toward a cold, dead condition. How
ever, he said, it is impossible to an
swer the question other than to refer
to the fact that crops raised in the
most ancient of historic times were
substantially the same as th jse grown
at present, so that there has atleast
been little decline within the last six
thousand years. With the aid of the
institution's students, which fix the
measurements within an error of only
1 per cent, scientists one thousand
years from now may be able to an
swer the question without doubt.
When the hypothesis of the sun's
variations was first being worked
but, it is said, a very interesting
method was used to check the ob
servations. Using a photo-electric
cell. Dr. Guthnick of the Berlin Ob
servatory measured the brightness of
the planet Saturn as compared with
the star Regulus. As Saturn shines
with the reflected light of *the sun,
it was declared, it must vary if the
sun does. These observations were
compared with the studies of the
sun's brightness as made by the
Smithsonian, but the tables did not
agree, although both showed some
what similar flunctuations over a pe
riod of several months. The com
parison, however, was made on the
assumption of changes on the sun
being felt in all directions simulta
neously, Dr. Abbot said. When al
lowance was made for the rotation of
the sun's disc, which is about 27
days, and for the fact that the rays
which reached the earth might sweep
around one, two or three days before
or after reaching Saturn, it was
found that latter was the true case,
and the fluctuations accorded exactly.
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The safest and surest way back to
health, strength and happiness is by
th~ Tsrlse route. C. H. Mitchell.
Adv.
LETTER FROM COUNTY
HOME DEMONSTRATOR
BY MISS MYRTLE SWINDELL |
Winton, N. C., July 8, 1922.!
Ediftr Herald, Ahoskie, N. C.
Dear Sir: I have in my possession
a letter written by Bessie Grissom
from Christian Harbor Community, i
She i? giving an account of her trip 1
to Raleigh June 19-24 in attendance
at the Short Course for Girls at Peace
Institute. I am making a copy on the
machine for your paper as she re
quested me to do so. I offered a 1
prize to the girl that wrote the best, so
you see this is a prize letter.
The girls Short Course for 1922
was held in Raleigh at Peace Institute, j
The following being the lessons that
were taught: Interior decoration,
jelly making, making over old furni
ture, basketry and the many ways |
one can earn money. Each morning
after breakfast the bell would ring
and everybody went to chapel for
morning exercise, after which the
girls were divided, some went in one
class and some to another.
Mrs. Estelle Smith and Miss Myrtie
Keller the teachers for Interior Deco
ration taught us how to furnish a
home, select furniture and draperies
for the home. After we left that class
we went to the furniture stores of
Raleigh and selected the suitable fur
niture and draperies. From there we
went to a studio to select pictures and
mantles. Col. Fred Old joined us at
this store and toqk us over the Hall of
History, State** Library, Supreme
Court Room, a bakery and ice cream
factory; then we went back to Peace
Institute to meet our next class, jelly
making; Mrs. Morris and Miss Eva
Logan were our teachers. They told
us how to make different kinds of
jelly, and how to make attractive
packs for the Fair. Each day after
we finished our class in jelly making,
we wire given a lesson in painting
over ?ld furniture by Misses Martha
Creighton and Gertrude Alexander.
After this period we rested a short
time bofore dinner. After dinner we
went to the Chapel for our lesson in
basketry taught by Misses Swindell,
Dean and Plukett. This gives the ar
rangement of our classes each day.
On Thursday p. m. of this week
Mrs. Morris told us how Club girls
might earn their own money and men
tioned basketry, handkerchiefs, fancy
packs of jelly, making cake- and
raising chickens as sortie of the income
earning features.
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i ucauay evening, mr. niu irvm
Washington City spoke to us. On
Wednesday evening Col. Old and Dr.
Silbar talked to us. One of the fine
trips we had came on Thursday p. m.
when Col. Old took us over Raleigh in
street cars. We visited the State
Hospital, Methodist Orphanage, Old
Soldier's Home, and the Governor's
Mansion. We had a happy time that
afternoon singing most of th? time.
We saw two men at the Soldier's
home who were one hundred years
old.
Thursday evening Mrs.. Jane' * S.
McKimmin entertained us with a help
ful talk after which a little girl, ten
years old, from Bath, N. C., told us
about the history of her town.
Friday p. m., we went shopping and
returned with our arms full of pack
ages to bring to the home folks.
When we returned to Peace, we found
a most pleasant surprise waiting us?
a picnic supper on the campus. Such
good things were greatly enjoyed by
the hungy girls. When night came,
we were called to the Chapel where a
program of stunts front- each County
were pulled off. Everybody laughed
and laughed.
Last but not least a part of the
time during the Short Course was de
voted to other phases of demonstra
tion work. One of the great aims
of this work is to devolp a skill that
shall increase the economic earning
cf girls and women in this County, j
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A. M. E. ZION CHURCH
Special services will be held at St.
Mark's A. M. Ej Zion church, Ahos
kie, N. C. Sunday School at 9:30 a.
m., J. L. Lewis, Supt. Preaching at
11 o'clock a. m. by Rev. Mrs. C. L
Parker of Tarboro, N. C.
Preaching at 3:30 p. m. by Rev.
M. F. Hodges of the M. E. church,
Ahoskie.
An invitation is extended to our
good white friends to be present at
this hour. Special seats for them.
At night will be oreachin* and the
administration of the Lord's Supper
by Rev. C. H. Malone, pastor.
STATE NEWS IN DIGEST COM
PILED f OR READERS OF THE
HERTFORD COUNTY HERALD
The effects of the railroad strike is
being felt to some extent over the
state although it has not been in gen
eral. The Norfolk and Southern
Railroad company have discontinued
nearly all of their passenger trains.
In fact from reports tt-seems?that- -
they have left on, only one a day each
way. Elizabeth City is so effected.
In some cases clerks of the offices have
walked out also; thirty-five out of
forty-two employed by the Norfolk &
Western at Winston-Salem walked out
Tuesday. As yet no violence has been
reported in North Carolina although
many disturbances and some blood
shed have been reported in the
country at large. State troops have
been called out in places and it ap>
pears yet that it will be necessary to
use regular U. S. Troops unless the
strike is settled at an early date.
Governor Morrison and his party
arrived at Manteo on Tuesday. The
governor spent the day seeing historic
Roanoke Island. The party preceded
on a cruise down the Sound and other
inland waters. The party is already
much impressed with the possibilities
and resources of North Carolina's
inland waterways.
The date of opening the tobacco
markets all over the state has been
postponed. In Wilson the date has
been changed from Aug. 8 to the 15.
The Kinston Fox Hunt Club went
out Monday and bagged a real bear iir
the Neuse river low grounds. The
animal weighed around 150 pounds.
Reports of bears around Kinston have
been current for some time but this
is the first concrete evidence of same.
A curb market for the sale of
" country produce was opened in Lum-1
' berton, Robeson county this weeek. |
j Practically everything brought in was ,
disposed of at satisfactory prices. I
The opening of the market .was made
the occasion of a ceremony. State
Senator L/R. Vareer made a speech,
| i:>tr"duced by Miss Martha An
i drews, the home demonstration agent
I of that county. The plan was devhted
and worked out by the county demon
j stration agents.,
Robert, the 14 year old son of Mr. j
and Mrs. Delmer Reville of Burlington !
I was drowned in the Haw river Sunday
afternoon. As is usually the case in
such distressing accidents, the boy,
who could not swim, got into water
beyond his depth with the result-above
named.
Seventeen pigs constitute the litter
of one sow on the farm of Mr. P. S.
B. Harper near Kinston. The family
is dbing nicely. The owner believes
this is a record and it undoubtedly is.
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For the first time in two years, the
Vanci county jail is absolutely with
| out a prisoner. Of course there are
some at large who ought to be there,
in fact, report has it, if those who
recently escaped were present, there
would be plenty of work for the jailor.
Mr. Thomas Sterling McDearman,
prominent tobacconist and business
man of Rocky Mount, died at his home
in that city Wednesday. Mr. Mc
Dearman was 70 years of age and long
had been identified with, the business
life of Rocky Mount.
The rim of an automobile wheel
was blown off by the pressure of a
tire being placed on the wheel and
Will Ennis, colored, was kelled while
Sam Hogwood, a white man is in a
dangerous condition. This unusual
and fatal accident 'happened at
Smithfield Wednesday of this weeek.
The tire hit the negro squarely on
the head crushing his skull.
N. Braswell, a white man went^te
sleep on the Seaboard Air Line rail
road tracks near Weldon Sunday
! morning. Train number 16 came
along. The next day a coroners jury
decided that the deceased came to
his death by reason of "contributory
negligence." - 1
Wesley Kidd and Hobart Kidd,
j brothers living near Murphy, chose
the perils of a swollen river rather
than be captured by revenue officers
by whom they were being pursued.
Last week the revenues got after the
men and they fled being hotly pursued,
they came to the Hiawa^see riv?r
I which was swollen by recent rains,
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there wag no bridge and no ferry
available, so they abandoned their
conveyance and took to the water,
reaching the other side in safety and
escaped.
?William A. IIuglie& and Mn: ~Eliza
beth M. Fitch, both of Burlington
were united in marriage in that city
Saturday. The groom is 80 years of
age while his blushing bride is 10
years younger.
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Mrs. Erie S. Hedgecock, of High
Point, has started suit in the Superior
Court to recover certain property
which she assigned to the Home Sav
ings Bank of High Point when the
Home Savings Bank of High Point
failed and her husband was charged
with a shortage in his accounts of
8100,000. Mrs. Hedgecock alleges
that undue threats and persuasions
were used by the vice-president of the
bank to get her to make the assign
ment.
Reports are that the folks who live
on Roanoke Island are preparing to
revive the custom of holding an an
nual picnic and celebration at Fort
Raleigh, the site of the first English
settlement in the New World. Friday,
August 18th, will be the 336th anni
versary of the founding of the fort.
Before the World War, every year,
excursions were run from Edenton
and Elizabeth City and it was not
unusual for Roanoke Island to enter
tain as many as four and five thousand
people on those occasion.
With warehouse space sufficient to
accommodate 2,500 bales of cotton,
the Elisabeth City Cotton Mills, Inc.,
this week was licensed by the Federal
Department of Agriculture under the
National Warehouse Act to run a
bonded warehouse business.
Reproduction of the memorable
battle of Alamance with four hundred
men in the full costume of the red
coat militia of 1771 will be the princi
pal feature of the "Alamance Day"
festival and Burlington's second Mardi
Gras, according to the announcement
made recently by the Chamber of
Commerce of that city.
With an acerage increase estimated
at 25 per cent more than that of last
year, with prospects that the crop
will be a week or ten days earlier, and
with the price outlook distinctly favor
able, the sweet potatoe crop in Cur
rituck county is now most encourag
ing. This is the report of J. B. Baker,
auditor of the North River Line, a
water transportation. company which
handles the bulk of the crop. Barring
extremely unfavorable weather,
sweet potatoes will commence to move
from Currituck county by July 25th,
and the prospects are that the crop
will not be much short of 125,000
barrels.
At a meeting of the Board of
the County Commissioners of Wash
ington county the rate of the tax levy
for 1922 was fixed at $1.16 on the
$100 valuation, as against $1.00 on
the hundred last year. . Twelve cents
of the increase goes to schools while
four cents goes to a million dollar
bond issue fund.
The Japanese steamer Reiyo Maru,
in port at Wilmington, was raided by
prohibition officials Saturday. The
ship's cook and seven quarts of liquor
were siezed. The raid followed the
alleged sale to a prohibition agent of
liquor by a Japanese seaman. When
the prohibition men reached the ship
the skipper greeted them cordially
and informed them that he had beed
expecting them for some time.
Hamlet is planning to have a big
peach show which will commence on
July 20th. The show is of special in
terest to the peach growers of the
sand hills of the two Carolines. There
will be an exhibit of modern orchard
machinery, implements, supplies and
lectures by expert peach growers.
To date 109,876 passenger automo
bile licenses and about 12,000 truck
licenses have been issued by the Sec
retary of State at Raleigh for the en
suing-year. Altogether the automo
bile and truck owners have paid Into
the state nearly $2,000,000 since June
20th when the new licenses commen
ced v<> be i-.-ue-'. Municipal and state
cars are Sexg ar-eaed at $1.00 each.
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