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SCHOOL SYSTEM TWSCRACE Dr. Knight Days Tar Had Com placency—Says Tar Heels A^e Backward and Have Fa.led in Tiring Aycock Died For. "North Carolina is as iow educa tionally as* any other state in the Union," stated. Dr. E. W. Knight, of^ the university of North Carolina, in a forcibie speech deiivered hFTore the Civit3n club in Raieigh at lunch the ] other day, as reported in The Times. It was North Carolina "lasts," not "firsts," that Dr. Knight dwelt on and time and time again he hit at the State's growing complacency, its loud boastings and its low intellec tual state as compared to its com mercial. "I'm going to quit lying about my State " said the speaker, "and try to tell the truth)" i "We Have Failed" "Wo have failed in North Carolina to give every child the thing that Ay cock died for, and since he diedS have not seen anybody in North Carolina willing to die for any cause." Speaking of Dr. Edward Mimm's hook, "The Advancing South," Dr. Knight said: "Dr. Mimm's book is the most provincial document that has come out of this section for years. We have done great damage in North Carolina by glorifying our smali ef forts to make them appear great achievements. , * Explodes Boosts Like & man sticking pins in a 1 unch of ballootus, I)r. Knight ex ploded many of North Carolina's boasts with the recitation of a few tacts. North Carolina ins the shortest echoed term fa t&e United States, he raid. North Carolina does tess for the training* of teachers than any other state in the country. North Carolina is continually in the tnidst of a mass of educational liti gation. There are more automobiles on the North Carolina highways than boohs in the North C-trolina libraries, he claimed. Attacks inferiority Speakers and boosting writers were , given special attention by Dr. Knight who stated that they gave out a false impression by hiding all but the com plimentary facts. Complacency, self satisfaction, he s*aid, was the order of the day in North Carolina. Concerning county schools, Dr. Knight said, "North Carolina county school superintendents are the most inferior peouje we have in the State's ' ^ education work." He was highly com ^ plimentary m* the und^paid teachers ^ who Struggle each summer for addi tional training and compared them with the "Lazy superintendents" and other school officials. He excepted the Wake county and Raleigh school su per ntendents from his indictment, saying that they were both high class men. North Carolinians don't read, said Dr. Knight. He stated that of 60,000 volumes of the Lif# of Letters of Walter Hines Page, one of the state's most distinguished sons, only 200 have been sold in North Carolina. What North Carolina needs, said the speaker, is a tradition which can't be acquired by boasting but only through education itself and the con tinual training of the educators. - CONSIDER AND REFLECT I Tlese cases in which persons are at rested and punished for sOtlihfr Water for liqour, or having taken cash with order for same fail to deMveh, ^ present cne of the many phases of legal procedure that ate cause for wonder. The sharper who plays on the rather common craving for atim-{ ulants, and the creduHtv of the thirs ty, for gain, is of course guilty' of ] fraud. He is in tie rather curious) position of having taken money to do an unlawfui act, and having failed to' perform is punished. If he had per formed according to agreement he wouid abo be iiable to punishment. He is in bad on either horn of the dilemma, but he deserves no consid-j eration. But what about the other' party to the proposition? He at-j tempted to procure the performance; of an unlawful act. Ht attempted to; secure a violation of the law by the payment oi m ney; in effect by bfib-' cry. Having in turn been defrauded,' as he deserves, he turns to the law which he has attempted to undermine and demands that he be avenged of his mivorsary. lie paid for a viola ! tion of the law, the contract was not fulfilled, he demands that the default er he punished. The complaint is heard and heeded. Chew on that for awhile. In ordinary esses me who in any! way contributed to the performance ^ of an untawful act, who knowingly and wilfully aid&d and abetted in its performance, directly or indirectly; or who was an accessory before nr af- j ter the fact, whj had knowledge that! it wa3 to be nerformed or had been; performed and took no action in the; matter, is held a participant in guilt or equally guilty with the principal.! If one entered into a contract with aj burglar to inmish the cost cf the ex plosives to blow a safe, on condition that he share in the loot, and the bur ! glar failed io blow the safe rnd kept the money, he would hardly run! whimpering to the police and de-j mand that the other party to the! agreement he arrested for fraud, j But the principle is the same.in the} liqucr case. In the iatter case onej enters into a conspiracy to secure the performance of An unlawful act. When his co-conspirator fails l im,j defrahds him he calls on the law he has e nspired to violate to avenge him, and he is heard. If it be said that one party to the conspiracy is guilty of fraud is a separate act while the other is not guilty because the violation which he attempted to pro cure was not actually performed, the same answer could be made in the safe-blowing ernspiracy suggested by way of illustration. But in that case he who attempted to have the act performed would hardly complain to the law because it was not perform, ed; and if he did he would probably get in jail. It all seems to point to the fact that either^ the courts or the making power, or both, have failed as yet to take the prohibitions law seriously. The law denounces, with a ' wealth of detail, about everything in connection with iiquor—manufactur in, selling, transporting, possessing, and other things too tedious to men tion. But the citizen may enter into a conspiracy for the violation of the law, and if his fellow conspirator plays him false the loser can, and of ten does, go whining to the police and, with a display of virtuous indig nation, demand that his co-conspira tor be punished for playing him false —for failing to violate the law*as he is that the other party to the con spiracy took his morwy and didn't per form as promised. But in reality, the . complaint is this: I hired this fel low to violate the law and he failed and refused to violate it. And the courts soiemniy proeed to punish the ronrpira'r" who tailed to fracture the Statues, as he promiserl. The prosecuting witness may not in com mended. but he gets away in the guise of the vittuous citizen who is tnft doing his duty in denouncing all crooks to the watch. Great, isn't it? --R. R. Clark in Greensbro Daily News. DID YOU EVER STOP TO THINK <By Edson R. Waite, Shawnee, Oklahoma.) THAT it is one thing for a mer chant to work up a good trade and another to hoid it. THAT the modern way to i.oid it is by advertising, quality and service. THAT some merchants improve their business through their own initiative a^d some be cause competition wakes them up and forces them to get busy. THAT successful sales are made through advertising; it brings , buyers to a store. THAT successfui merchants !<t advertising help to build their business. THAT the success merchants have built their business on a foundation of quality, we!! ad vertised. THAT advertising stimuiates business. THAT regularity in advertising keeps the successful merchandis er before the public all the while. SNAPPY, GOOD-TO-LOOK-AT ADS ATTRACT BUSINESS. Copyright 1920 ^ Furman Thompson, 2^, of Mt. Gilead, died at a hospital in Wilming^ ton Sunday from an auto accident Saturday near that city on Route 20 when a truck darted into tbc ro^d from a blind crossing. itlMYSllfWir FOKHTMEM Women Prepared Their Own Medicines The wise pioneer women learned to gather, In woods and fieids, the reme utes tne tna:ans used. Front the rafters of colon:;)! houses, hung great bunches of dried roots amt herbs. From these, in times of sickness, the busy mother brewed simple and powerful remedies. From root.i and herbs, Lydia E. Pinkham, a descend Rtuiuy tier Vegetabie Compound. The beneficial effects of this dependable medicine are vouched for by hundreds of women. Mrs. Wm. Kraft of 2S38 Vinewood Ave.. Detroit. Mich., saw a Pinkhant ad vertisement in the "News" one day and made up her mind that she would give the Compound a trial. At that time she was very weak. "After the first bot tle," she writes, "! began to feel better and like a new woman after taking six botties. I recommend it to others and always keep a bottle in the house." Mrs. Gust Green of 401 Lincoln Park Boulevard. Rockford, lliinois, found herself in a condition simiiar to that of Mrs. Kraft. "I was weak and run down." she writes, "but the Vegetable Compound has helped me and I feel better now. I recommend it to all women who need more strength." Steaci! Guide for Neck Shave Saves Using Mirror Seif-administered neck shaves are rnm piiSed with the help of a ceUuloid sten d! that fastens to the bock of the head j with strops and a clasp and has slits in the edge to guide the razor. The itccea ' gory makes a mirror unnecessary and can 'be used both for the side and rounded Styles. * * * So!ve Mystery in Language of the Honey Bees T)ud bees have a language by means of which they can communicate with one imother about new-found feeding grounds, the kind of flowers to visit and their general direction from the hive, ap pears to be proved through experiments made by a German scientist. He found a swarm of bees would visit the place wh- rc sugar was exposed immediately after one of them had fed and returned to the hive to spread the news. This the bee does by a peculiar dance. By marking bees with colors and feeding Home while leaving others unfed, the ex perimenter proved that only those which had been fed worth! start the dance that brought swarms to new feeding grounds. * * + Movies for Ship Passengers to Care Seasickness Seasickness is believed to be due partly to strain on the eyes caused by the con stantly shifting planes of the ship. To counteract the effects of this Movement and thns possibly spare passengers un pleasant iMneas, egporiments are under way in filming special mptipn pictures for exhibition on liners. TfMy are expected to have a soothing effect on the eyes and enable persons to regain a complete sense of balance. As many stupe are already provided with equipment for displaying the reds, no additional expense will be involved, and the pictures themselves will afford another source of entertain ment on long voyages. a a a Removing Grass along Fence Crass along fence posts can be homed away with a common gasoline blowtorch without injury to the pods, if a wCt gunny sack is taken along. The glass will burn quickly and the gunny sack is then used to quench the embers. This is an easy and simple method and elimi nates the danger of burning the pods close to the ground. a a a Kennel on Running Board Has Glass Windshield lor the convenience of dog dwnCrs wishing to take their pets with theib pq automobile journeys, a compartment has been designed by an English motorist to t carry his buMdog, which acts as guardian while the car stands unattended. The upper part of the inclosure is of giass, and it can be placed on either end of the running hoard Radio Tat Light Saves Tabes A uaefui radio teat light can be made from the base of a burned-out tube and A dovbte-eontact auto-)aatp socket Remove sH glass and indent*! wiring from the base. leav ing the metal shell *ad the four prongs intact. Connect the two terminals on the auto-lamp to the filament prongs on the tube base by means of lengths of small; flexible wire, soldered in 6t-6-4 VOLT TO VOLTMETER . tmUlTL sgsg'i^ BASE Of : at TVPEl twto TUBE- PLU&" ptace. Ptace the socket m the posiuon shown, nnd run metted seating wax Around it, hotdmg it firmty untd the wax has set; ptace A 6-vott, 2-cp. auto lamp - m the socket and the test tamp is com pete. To test the circuit, ptacc the tamp in the tube sockets in the regular manner and note the resutt. If the cir cuit is correct, the tamp witt tight. * * * Cleaning Spark Plugs Pew car owners ' enjoy" disassembting spark ptugs and laborious];/ removing carbon partietes with a knife and scraper. A good method of doing this is as fot tow8: Immerse the ptugs in a fruit jar, pattty titled with muriatic acid: the length of t!)e bath may be from tO minutes to ah hour, depending on the strength of the acid and the condition of the ptugs. Afterward, wash the ptugs in water. Heat treatment is another good meth od of cleaning spark ptugs. The ptug is j taken apart and the porcetains are ptaced ih a hot !ye bath, a saturated sotution being used. The shetts are ptaeed in a 6rh, heated atmost red and are then ptunged in cotd water. a a * ^Scratches can be removed from furni- j ture by rubbing wett witi) a sotution con sisting of equat parts of satad oit and } vinegar, using a soft rag After the XdSatdhee have disappeared potish can ba ! hip)^!ed t WHEX S!STER ROES TO COLLEGE (By James Evans Quick) There seems cn awful hurry Down at our house today, Evcr'thing is worry, hustle; And goin' wrong some way. My toes have a!! been trampled And I've been railed "a fool". For sister's goin' to college As we kids start out for schooL % The dress maker has been busy Makia' all the finest things, And "sis" looks like an angel Jest n-sproutin' of its wings. Her beau gave her a present, She rays 'tia a "iool" Which she's goin' to wear at college While us kids are tendin' school. Aunt .Jam gave her a Bible And she's got a memory hook, A hope-chest fuil o' treasures Where us kids ain't Towed to look. The twins sttrt in to t-ryin' Jest for addin' to (he fuss And pa has puiled his check book 'TiH he's pmty nigh to cuss. I'm wear in last year's breeches That my pa has worn before, Ma has m?de them over 'Cause the seat was split and tore. Hut "sis" has got the fixin's For the weather hot or coo), AW we kids raise t he dickens An we re startin' out for school My threat is fcclin' lumpy And :ny stummick's feelin' sick, For new who's gonna help me With that darned ol' 'rithmetic? I got a brand new teacher, n[. ; . Who 1 know'is mighty "erooC' And sister's goin' to college While 1 have to go to school! tut vacatunsmdSt be ended, The knowledge must be learned; the m;:d of life must be traversed And \visdom never spurned. To fight life's rugged battle We must have a worthy tool, So sister goes to college And we kids start out for school. , Ciio, S. C., Aug. 9, 1920. Farmers conducting swine-feeding demonstrations in Chowan county re cently sold 206 hogs for a little' over SC,000. ATI the hogs killed hard and these men will not worry about the price of cotton this fall. Dr. G. Blair Jennings CHIROPRACTOR Office over Post Office Hours 9-12; 2-4 W. H. Humphrey, Jr. Attorney-at-Law 2nd. Floor Britt Building Phone 4?4 DR. H. L. PRICE I'MYS[C[AN Office in Britt Building, Eim Street Office Phone 407. Res. Phene 327L2 Have your photos and views made by Utters. ETTERS STUDIO McLeod Building. Phone 334 Let us do your kodak finishing 24 hour service. Mail orders given prompt attention. Geo. L. Grantham " Attorney - at - Law Jones Building. Phone 26 Fairmont, N. C. Dr. Graham McLean DENTIST Office 3rd floor Pianters B!dg Phone No. M2 LUMBERTON, N.C. Office homs 9 fo 12. I p. m. to 5 JO "DR. W. G. NiMOCKS ifcntist Mansfieid Cotton Mi!! Office Formeriy occupied by Dr. M. A. Wadde!) Lumberton, N. C. Office Phone 367 Residence Phone 07 T. A McNeiii, Jr. F. D. HadtatL MtNei!) & Hath** Attorneya-at-Law LUMBERTON. N. C. FRANK McNEiLL ATTORKEYAT.LAV Practice fn Ail Coturta Office in McLeod BMg. Formeriy Occupied tiy Johnson, Johnson & McLebd. JOHN G7 PROCTOR Attorney-at-Law Office Eim St. in huiiding formeriy Oceupieo by iaw firm of McIntyre, Lawrence & Proctor. Junius J. Goodwin Attomey-at-Law Office 200-201 Planters Bnnl!! Building. Lumberton, N. C. . .. <;i'tn* ! Thomas L. Johnson R M. JolKShon John B. McLeod Johnson, Johnson A McLeod Attorneys and Connaellors at Law Lnmberton, N. C. P:acth-s in State and Federal Conrta No'try Pubiic in Office.Off!ese nWr First National Bank. DEBUTANTE BALL IN RALEIGH ; SEPT. 1$ TO FEATURE 5 PAY FALL FESTIVAL PROGRAM. — Raleigh, Sept. 8—The annua! de butante ba!! nf the fifth annau) fa!! fcKtiva! staged by the Rateigh Mer chants association which wi!! he he!d in the city auditorium on the evening of September 16th, wi!! be the moat e! borate socia! event of the fcativa!. At thia interesting aocia! event forty five of North CaroHna's moat beauti fu) nnd popu!ar ghrls wi!! make their forma! bow t" society. Each year Raleigh citizens and via itors from neighboring cities took for w .rd to the debutante ba!! as the moat popular aocia! feature of the State. These ba!!a arc always !argc!y attend cd, not on!y by dancers but by hun dreds of spectators. The !ovc!y young debutantes in their white frocks to gather with the hundreds of dancers in the beautifully-decorated auditor ium make a gorgeous scene which is ! wet! Worth ttending. At this time gowna that Dame Fashion decrees for the coming season wit] be worn by w ; number of North Carolina's most beautiful women. Hai Kemp's orchcstn, a sexet of Musicians, composed in the main of students of the university of North Carolina, wi!l furnish the music. This orchestra has recentty had engage ments at the Mcthropoiitian theatre of Atlanta, Ga.. and the Nationat theatre at Greensboro. Severn! mem bers of the orchestra were members of the !'au! Spaccht orchestra which played for thie Prince of Wales in !324, during the ocean voyage of the prince to this country. CONVENTION MARKS HEIGHT GREATEST SALES ACTIVITIES OF CHEVROLET COMPANY Marked by an enthusiastic optimism over the prospects of increasing Chev rolet sates by 1,000 more cars per day during the coming year, more than 1000 members of the company's sate? , force who supervise 8500 Chevrolet [dealers, closed a four-days convention in Detroit August 26, held for the purpose of formulating pians for 1927 saies. From every division of the com I psny-saies—advertising—parts and service—and engineering came techi nal experts who contributed their spe ! cialtzed knowledge to the convention, held in the magnificent new Masonic I Temple auditorium—the largest of its kind in the Middle West. ! As a result the delegates left fey t their zones Friday with a profound i conviction that the additionai cars the company wili be enabled to build un der a $10,000,000 expansion program inaugurated June 1 of this year wiii be marketed through increased effi ciency in saies method. In a press interview during the convention, W. S. Knudsen, president of the company, declared the Eu ropean smai) car, was not destined to figure prominently in the American market because of the limitations of this type of car. "Not one of the European cars that comes under the head of 'small' would satisfy American requirements" he said. "Some of these machines have as many as four forward speeds and jtear shifting is resorted to on the slightest hili. "The American driver in many cases uses only second and high gears when his car has once warmed up. Power , with him is one of the essentials— ! and that is not to be found in the smai! combustion engine designed for ! peculiariy European conditions. He ! dislikes a car with an engine that for ces him to shift gears when the motor i is required to exert power. No small ; car made in Europe compares favor h^aby Chick* For Sale !*urvbred BhgMbh Barron strain Leg ihorn Baby Chicks $8.75 hundred postpaid. } Brown LeghotOS (10 hundred. Anconas. Sheppard strain, best layers I $11 hundred. ithode Island Beds (1! hundred. Plymouth Hocks (11.50 hundred White Rocks (13 hundred. All good healthy strong purebred chicks guaranteed. We pay postage charges and guaran tee live delivery. Take a statement from your I'ost Master, if any dead, we wilt replace them. The Dixie Hatchery TABOR. N. C. BROKE We can fix it right if it is your Boiler, Engine, Saw Mill, Gin, Gas Engine, we make new Braises to fit. All kinds of Shop and lathe work. Acetylene Welding. We carry in stock at all times Shafting, Steel, Bound and Flat Iron. COME AND SEE. C. A. Inman First street. Lumberton, N. 0L ably with American small types for speed, endurance, power, comfort and ! luxury. Nor do 1 believe that an Amer- t icon car, patterned after the European car, will satisfy." The convention marked the height of the greatest sates activities in the history Of the Chevrolet Motor com pnny during its phenomena! growth to the targe*t manufacturer of gear-j shift cars in the worid. Besides the men from the 32 sales' zones of the company, prominent of. fit ials of the General Motors corpora, j tion, the Genera! Motors Acceptance corporation, the Chevroiet Motor Com pany of Canada, Ltd. and other sub sidiaries of the Genera! Motors were , at the meeting At the opening session R. H. Grant j genera! sa!es manager of the company gave the keynote of the convention "1.000 more cars per day". His ad! dress was heard by a sales organize. ' tion serving more than 8,&00 Chevro ] let dealers and included regional and zone managers, division represents tives and sates promotional tnd ser vice promotional representatives. Mr. Grant stressed the recent ac centuated development of the Com pany which he said "made it possibic for Cherotet to set up the most re markable sales and production record of any maker of gear shift cars." He outlined to the deiegates the part each member of the sates organization was ; to play in merchandising the tremen dous increase planned in production. He t<dd also of the service to be ren dered dealers through national and local advertising campaigns under the Chevrolet co-operative,advertsing ays tern. iuvsoay sesstons were tdks by official atal department head* of the company. Every graphic aid that would bring home forcibly to the convention the ptana of the com j pony was used during thcae sessions. Wednesday deiegates transferred their sessions afioat to the Steamer j Tashmoo for an aii day ride on Lake St. Clair river and the Detroit river. Thursday was devoted to an inspec- ' tion trip to the Chevrolet factories at Flint and to the 1125-acre proving groand of the Genera! Motors Cor poration at Miiford, Michigan. (\tst of Lumber The man who has bought a smaii board and paid a dollar or more for it wiii be interested in the statement made by the United States Forest Service that the average price of ev ery 1000 feet of lumber used during 1024 was $12. But the Government statement shows that the gross freight Mil on lumber during that year amounted to about $408,000,000. In consequence the freight charge often more thAh doubles the price of lum ber to the consumer. Kansas City, Sept. 6.— (AP)— United States Senator James A. Reed of Missouri announced definitely to day that he would not be a candidate for he wouM ne.Noci linacp Caro Cuh i for renomination in 1928. Engineer Plamed for Comafnn Ci.itago, Sept. 7.—f AP)—An engi neer who ties babhiing incoherent!/ in n hospita) was biamed today by rai! road officiate and feiiow workers for a rear-end cotiision iast night of two Chicago and Northwestern passenger train, to heed two warning si%fta!s persona and injury to a hundred. Prank Walters. vice-president of the mad. in charge of operations, re ported officiatiy that the failure of Ijouis J. Smith, pitot of the su#ban train, to heed two wraning aighaia mused the train to plough into the reir coaches of the iocai train bring ing back from Elroy, Wis., and inter mediate points several hundred holi day merrymakers. be eKap^eiy/ * T DO NbT WiAlt to bo th!n! ! juat JL want to be my right weight! 1 went theee hollows filled mtt. 1 juat went enough drm, plump Mesh on my bones to HM out my figure." Of course you do. You went n fig ure that you can drape your tiofhee on—not just hang them on! Whet's the use of having pretty clothes, If they just hang on you? And what would you say If yon were told you could have the figure you want? A gracefn!. wel! ronndad body—firm, solid flesh—just enough— just your right weight? You'd b mighty happy, wouldn't you? well, then, he happy—because yon can have It! Put plenty of red cells In your blood and watch your weight go up to where you w^nt It! Theta what's the matter with you! four Mood Is Impoverished. You need mors rich, red htood. S. S. $ Is the thing to put red blood fn your system. 8. 8. 8. helps Nature bufld red Mood cells by the millions. Yon just try 8. 8 8. and watch how quickly you heghrto f!I! out your clothes. Notice /_ your skin clear of un-V^ ^ t sightly blemished—vourt Jw/ appetite increase— strength como to dabby muscles and vim and vigor fill your whole system. It's red Mood that does It. And S. 3. 8. sorely helps Nature build that red blood. S. S. S. Is sold by all drug eteres. The larger bottle Is more economical. Just Received Big Assortment * I Ladies' Hats !,i i*'! $1 to $4.95 Also several shipments Men's Suits-Attractive Styies and Popular Prices. K. M. BIGGS Lumberton, N. C. NOTICE I have moved my Insurance Offices to No. 404, Chestnut Street. Just across the street from the Lorraine Hotel. Q. T. WILLIAMS, Agent Lumberton, N. C.
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