North Carolina Newspapers

THE WEATHER PARTLY CLOUDY AND SLIGHTLY COLDER TON!GHT. TUESDAY CREASING CLOUDLESS. VOL. LVH.—NO. 86. THE EIGHT PACES TODAY LUMBERTON, N. C., MONDAY, DECEMBER 6, 1926 COUMTRT. COB AMD TRUTH- MTABLUm? MTA ^B!CR MTH CHHTH Death and Suffering WithFir.t Heavy Snowfall Of Winter East Covered With Snow from Meta ware Capes to Maine After 24 Hoars of Continuous Fat). Aew York, Dec. i).—(Ar)—c^acn and suffering came with the first heavy snowfall of the winter which blanketed the east today. One man died of exposure in Buff alo where the snow reached a depth of 11 inches. In Lockport, N. Y, the mow obscured the vision of a street t ar tnotorman and an automobile driv er, and two occupants of the automo bile were killed in the resultant crash. Firemen at several points were kept busy fighting to prevent the spread of flames fanned by the high winds which swept eastern seaboard. A church and a furniture warehouse were destroyed by fire in Long Branch, N. J., and 12 buildings in the path of the blare were damaged. In Bristol, Pa., a theatre fire threaten ed to spread throughout the business section of the borough when the icy winds retarded the firemen. Bellefonte, Pa., reported zero tem peratures and a 10-inch snow. There was a 12-inch snowfall in Sunbury and six inches in Bloomsburg. Other points in the Anthracite region re ported from six to eight inches. Min ing operations were not seriously in terfered with The four mashed schooner Horace A. Stone, which lost her anchors and sails in the gale which lashed the coast of Massachusetts Friday was taken in tow today by the revenue cutter Monehtgan, according to wire less dispatches tA the coast guard base at Boston. The vessei drifted Friday night to a point 4.1 miles southeast of Nantucket lightship, where she sent,out distress signals. The cutter Acushet. put out to her as sistance but was disabled by the gale and forced to Newbedford for repairs. Seventy-five boats were caught in ice of the Erie and champlain divi sions of the Barge canal. Few boats w ere moving on Lake Erie. After 24 hours of continuous fall, the snow in some places was piled in drifts five feet high. The east was covered from the Delaware Capes to Maine. Emergency ettulpment to clear the snow was turned out in the large t itles id keep open the thoroughfares over which the daily supply of food and fuel Is moved. Coldest In .12 Yeats. Boston. D^ec. 5.—(AP)—New Eng land was engulfed in a bitter freezing wave from the northeast today that drove down temperatures to the low est levels of the season. In the north ern sections, the mercury sank far b^ low the zero mark Boston, with a frigid four degrees above zero, ex perienced its coldest December 5th in (he history of the twehther bureau whose annals extend back 52 years. Hard on the heels of the peak of the cold wave chme snow that fell steadily throughout the day and was drifted by a driving northeast wind. Northfield, Vermont, reported an official 12 degrees below zero, and Caribou, Maine, 12 below. Basketball Practice Will Begin Today 4 Members Last Year's Squad Report —First Came Friday Night. Basketball practice , will begin at Lumbertop high school this afternoon, and the first game of the season will be played Friday night of this week, according to Coach S. A. Bowden. It: is not yet known whom Lumberton's opponents at that time will be. Twenty or twenty-five candidates have turned in their names to Coach ] Bowden so far this season, and it is : expected that the number of cundi-ej dates will be increased when practice. gets under way. Only four of this: number are members of last year's squad, however. RESIDENCE BURNED AT PHILADELPHUS THIS A. M.j Mr. i. T. Brown's Residence and Its Contents Destroyed by Fire—Prac tically Nothing Saved. Browh, between Philadelphus and Red*: Springs, was completely destroyed by fire this morning at 4 o'clock. The home was occupied by Mr. Brown and his daughter Miss Amanda Brown. No particulars have been learned beyond the fact that practically nothing was raved. The loss was partially cover ed by insurance. —The annual meeting of the Robe , un County Fair association will be held in the office of the secretary and treasurer, Mr. \V. 0. Thompson, Thursday evening at 7 o'clock. Im portant business will be transacted. I All directors and stockholders are! urged to be present. Yes, I wiii make your goods up forj you. You furnish the c'oth, I will make Men's Suita or Ladies' Dresses to fit. AH Hand Taiiored to Measure. JOHN D. PURVIS. TAILOR. 5th St. Next Door to Postoffice. Wing in Maine Arthur L. Gould, 73 year old ! Senator-elect in Maine, piled up a big majority over his Democratic ; riva! in the recent election, despite ) the allegations that he, like Vare I of Pennsylvania, and Smith' of ; Illinois, were charged with illegal campaign expenditures. Cupid Up-to-Date At High School Here December 9 Date Changed to Thursday Night— Modern Musical Comedy to Me Pre sented Under Auspices of U. D. C —Many Local People Will Take Part. "Cupid Up-to-Date", a modern musical comedy, will be presented at the high school auditorium Thursday night, December 0, under the auspices of the U. D. C. Rehearsal!! have been held daily and nightly tor the past week under the direetton of Miss Vir ginia King of Greenville, N. C., rep resenting the Wayne B. Sewell Co. Note that the dpte has been changed to Thursday nighty Dec. 9. Forty Or more local people will take part. The costumes are said to be unique and gorgeous and the music wonderful, there are 25 children in the cast and a beautiful chorus o.t gtris who wear over 200-pieces of cos tuming. ^ it m expected that a large crowd will gather at the school building Thursday night to witness this/per^ formance. Work Begins On Boardman Highway Road Blocked Off and Cement Pour ing Megan This Morning—Trough Traffic Detoured hy Abhottaburg. The read from Lumberton to Board man over route 20 was blocked oft Saturday, and the work of pouring cement was begun at Lawson's filling station by Ziegler Bros, of Greens boro this morning. Ti e contract calls for the completion of the project in 100 working days. ' Through traffic ft om Wilmington is detoured over route 21 and the county road from Whiteville to Ab bottsburg, and it lotlows route '211 from Abbottsburg to Lumberton. The distance from Lumberton to Wilming ton over this route is practically the same as over route 20, and the trip may be made in almost as short time. Local traffic from Lumberton will turn off at Long Branch church and come back into route 20 at Lawmen's fiiiing station. The Lumberton \nd of the road is being paved, first, and as soon as it is completed from L e filling station to Long Branch, ioca' traffic will go over the old L-vcti road and come into route 20 at Law- , son's filling station. RuildiHg Permits. Building permits have been let for thrr following: v Mr D. L. Whiting, for the erection of a o-roorn veneer residence on East 17th street at a cost of a approxi mately $4,000; Mr. Junius J. Goodwin for a 1-room addition and general re pairs to his house at the corner of 11th and Walnut, costing $700; Mr W. H. Humphrey for a 21 x 21 ft. ad dition to his roller^ covering, shop on East 12th street at a cost of $200;] Mrs. R. H Crichton for a 0-room residence on North Chestnut, costing $3,000; Mr. Ed Floyd for the erection of a 5-room residence on 'East 17th street at a cost of $2,000. MRS. LAWSON WILL SING AT INDIAN NORMAL TONIGHT Mrs. Franccska Kaspar Lawson, soprano, of Washington, 1). C, will sing at the Cherokee Indian Normal, Pembroke, tonight at 8 o'clpck. A small admission charge will be made. Cotton Market Middling Cotton is selling on the local market today at,10 3-4 cents the pound. GASOLINE 25c Fuller's Service Station Lumberton, N. G . , S Mac Blue and Carlton Praw Road Sentences _* I Mac Gets Tata! of 5 Months and So licitor Cariton 6 Months on Charges Growing Out of Shooting Here Sunday \ight of Last Wt?k—Dave Biue Pays Out. OTHER CASES. i Mac Bite and Solicitor Cariton, -:ot. I ored, drew road sentences totaling 5 ! months and 6 montns, respectively, I and Dave Blue, brother of Mac, was aiiowed the' privilege cf paying t. e costs in tna<s berate Recorder F S. [Kornegay Friday on charges growing i out tit tac shooting aflrir near tin/ I Geddie ice plant at a late hour Sunday night 'or last week. Mac Biue was sentenced to 4 months on the roads for assault with a deadly weapon on Solicit ,r Carlton and given ttic clroice ot paytng a $26 fine and costs of gomg to the rot^ds tor g(l additional days on a charge Or oetng drunk. He decided Le would rattier work the roads for an extra m.nto than pay the fine and so was sent to the roads tor 5 months ail told. solicitor Carlton, was g.ven i months on the roads ior asmauC on Mac Blue, 3U days ior shooting Mi.a Blue, mother oi Mac, and suss .urt B.ue, sister of Mac. tm a charge oi aiiray he was given the privilege oi paying the costs or going to the roads ior 3u days, and chose the latter. Dave Blue, brother-of Mac, pant the costs on a cnarge or aiiray. As stated in iast Monday's ltobc soman, the allair which ended in the shooting began with a fight between Dave BiUe and Solicitor ^ariton near the ice plant Sunday night, November 2M. Cariton became angry and went home and got his shotgun, wrth watch he fired at the Blue lamtly, tutting Mac in the abdomen with about 2d shot and Eda and Missouri 'Blue with 6 and one shot, respectively. Carlt :n was shot ht the foot by Mac Biuo, Mac and Carlton both maiming that the otocr shot first. Norman Ferrell of Greensboro paid the costs for speeding. Ferrell was arrested by Motorcycle Foiiceman Mark Page. , F. S. Leggett, who was arrested by 'inspectoi- George B. McLeod here Wednesday afternoon ftp; driving an automobile with the wrong kind oi license; was made to purchase a new license and pay the costs oi the ca^e. Lonnie and Luther Hyett and Yolly McLamb wore sentenced to ti e roads lor 30 days t n a t barge of vagrancy, committtment to be issued a they were found in town alter sunset oi the day of tri^t. Second Session of 69th (ongress Convenes Legislative Machinery cf Nation Set in Motion Again—Faces Hugh Task. Washington, Dec. 5.—(AP)—Once again the Constitution wilt cal! Con gress into session tomorrow. At noon, the gavel wilt fall in Senate and House, setting in motion the legislative machinery of the na tion which has been idle since adjourn ment last July. The new session, the second of the 69th Congress, will faye a huge task. It will have but three months in which to work, fdr its tenure undey the con stitution expires March 4. More than 12,000 bills remain on the calendar untouched fj;om last ses sion. To these will be added several hundred morn as soon as the formal ties of the opening day are over. Out of this brief three months of work must he taken ten days for a Christmas vacation, while many hours will be consumed by the political ora tors. Tile burden of selection of those bills to be given preferential con sideration will fall on the shoulders' of the Republican steering commit tees of the two houses- They will be required to choose only a few- bids to push forward for enactment. *3?irst in their minds are the annual appropriation bills to provide funds for the operating expenses of the gov ernment. Besides these, agreement al ready has been reached to take up two measures on definite dates—the Rivers and Harbors bill in the Senate on ^Dec ember 14, and a bill proposing salary increases for the federal judiciary in the housk next Thursday. The tentative legislative list also includes alien property, radio, the Mc Fadden Branch Banking bill, the Lausanne treaty with Turkey, and the treaty to outlaw- use of poisonous gas in warfare. , Farm relief -proposals in numer ous forms also are knocking at the doors of both houses while the Demo cratic membership is solid in its de mand for a tax reduction hill. GOOD WOKKMANSHi!' DEMAX Di GOOD TOOLS Garments sent to us ate reaiiy giv en fqur cieanings because our modern Giover equipment continually changes the naptha 8 times an hour. Clothes are removed from a body o[ soivent just as sparkting in its purity as that into which they were piared. You wouid not entrust a biH to any but the safest bank. Give your suit or dress the same protection and entrust it to us. LUMBEHTOX DRY CLEANING CO Eddie L. McXeiif, Manager. 4th Street Phone 94 f i WEILIM; McINTYRE PORTRAIT On Thursday evening, Decern , her 9th, at 7:30, , at the court house in Lumbertop. the portrrdt )} of the iate Stepheh McIntyre wii! j he unveiled and presented to the county as a gift from tie bar. Addresses wiH be deiivered by Rev. Dr. Charies H. Durham, Mr. ! R. C. Lawrence, and other mem. } '; hers of the bar, and the portrait i wi!i be accepted by Judge Mid* iiKttte ' Friends of Mr. McIntyre, and l the pub'ic generaily, are cordiaHy invited to attend these exercises. , HEMS OF LOCAL NEWS —The Woo chib will meet with Mrs. R. A Hedgpeth Jr. Tuesday afternoon at 3=36. ' ; -Manager O. C. Duman states that beyinning tonight, Efird's store wiii be open until 9 p. ni. every week day until (Christmas. —Mr. J. C. McRae, whose foot was crushed by a shifting freight train at Abbottsburg Tuesday, is getting aionjgr niceiy, it was announced from Baker sanatorium this morning. ^ —Ti e condition of Mr. Ellie Rogers of the Oak Date section, near Mar ietta, who suffered a iracture of the sku!) and ieft thigh on Sunday night f last week and was brought to the Baker sanatorium, is improver). —Messrs. Osar israe) and Max Weinste^i returned Friday night from New York city, where they spent sev erai days purchasing Christmas good: for the 1. and W. store and A. Wein stein's department store. —Mr. i'. <W. Crookiord of Rich mond, Va., fieid director of Near East Reiief, spent Friday and Saturday in Lumberton in tiie ii^erest of this im portant woik, of which Mr. Frank McNeiH is ioca) chairman. —The American legion auxiiiary, of which Miss Janie Carlyle is president, is doing the greatest worh in its his tory and reports the largest member ship since it was organized. —The county commissioners, hoard of education and county road board are aii in reguiar session here today. With a two weeks' term of civii court convening this morning, too, a large crowd of peopie is in town today. —Mr. Etters has moved his studio from the McLeod building to his home, 310 Carthage road, his health not per mitting him to maiatain an up-town studio. He is doing photographic work at home. —The last meeting of the year for Lumberton post No. 42 of the Amer ican iegion wiii be held in the Ameri can iegion hat! Thursday night at 8 o'c'ock. A number of matters of Vita! importance wiii be discussed. AH members are urged t<*be present. —The iocai fire (Apartment was catied to the home of Mr. W. C. Col -iins on East 17th street at 9 o'clock Saturday morning on account of an electric wire in the kitchen burning into and scorching the ceiling. Prac tically no damage was done. —Mr. J. M. Barrington, officce deputy of Sheriff B. F. AIcAiiitan, asks The Robesonian to state that it was J. Barrington, an c-mpioyee of the Robeson Manufacurting Co., who was in court last week on a charge of giv ing a worthiess check and not J. H. Barrington, deputy sheriff. —Mr and Mrs. Artlie Herring and daughter, Miss Doretha Herring, Mrs. Herring's sister. Miss Mary Watts, and Mr. Herring's niece Miss Lola Herring, moved Thursday from a piace heionging to Mr J. H. McArn, Maxton, R. 4, to St. Pauls, where they wiii iive in the tniii viiiage. —Fire Chief Ed Giover asks The Robesonian to cail to the attention of the peopie of Lumberton the fact that the town has an ordinance re quiring that during a fire aH vehicies drive to the curb at one side and come to a compiete stop unti! the fire ap paratus has passed by. A great num ber of peopie unthoughtediy hinder the fire department in getting to a fire and at the same time endanger their lives, according to Alrr^iover. Mr Hugh McRae of W'iimington, who accompanied the committee ap pointed by Secretary of thg Interior Work on its visit to Pembroke Friday, toid Prof. C. B. WiHiams of the ag ronomy department of State coiiege, who was ais« a visitor to Pembroke, of a farm he is trying out on one of his estates that is not approved by the United States Department of Ag riculture, The farm has no cotton, corn, tobacco or peanuts, but what it does have Mr. McRae wouid not teli. He thinks he is going to make a suc cess of it, and if he does, he wants State coiiege to send some men down there next summer to work with him and study it. Mr. McRae is the organ izer of the C'astie Haynes and St. Hetena colonies near Wilmington and is counselor appointed by the Depart ment of thg Interior to the committee of Southern reciamation and rural de velopment. License has been Issued for the marriage of Harvey Barnhill and Miss Aiieen McDohnid, Luther C. Edens and Miss Kathieen McDaniel. CHRISTMAS GREETING CARDS Ca!i at Robesonian Office and Ptace Your Ordeg, We Have a Com.plete Line J rom W hich to Seiect. Remem ber How You At ways Have Promised Yourself Every Year Not to Delay so Long? Ptace Your Order Now at Robesouian Office. 11-lS-tf. ROWLAND NEWS Master <tphn Hugh McArn Recovering From t'acumonia—Mrs J. Edison Lyteh Hostess io bridge Huh—!'er sonai Mention. ^ Correspondence of The Robesonian. Rowland, Dec. 6.—Friends of Miss Eisic Monroe, one of the Howland school faculty members, wiii he giad to know that she is improving after a siight operation which she under went at Thompson hospita) in Lum berton. ' Mrs. Lizzie Alcl^eot] spent iast Thurs<iay in Diilon, 8 C., with Miss Janie McKay. Mrs. A. T. McKeiiar and daughter, Miss Elizabeth, spent iast Wednesday with reiatives in Chadbourne. Last week Dr, J. S. Brown of Hcn dersonviiie visited his sister. Miss Man Brown. Mrs. H. L. Prevost attd Miss Louise Prevost Haii spent Thursday in Flor ence, 8. C Mr. and Mrs. W. L. Oates returned Wednesday front Hock Hiii, 8. ( where they spent severai days with Mrs. Oates' relatives. Master John Hugh McArn, while visiting his grandmother, Mrs. Mary C. McCormick, contracted pneumonia and is stiil confined to bed. However, he !s rapidly improving and will soon he able to return to his home in Char lotte. Miss Bessie Pleasants visited her sister Mrs J. Edison Lytch in Lum berten last week. Mrs. C. J. MeCallum was hostess to the Tuesday afternoon Rook club last week. - Mrs. AHie McKinnon of Lumberton was a Rowland visitor one day last week. Friends of Miss Margaret Ward will be glad to know that she has quite re covered from diphtheria. Mr. Harry of Florence, 8. C., is sepnding a few days with his uncle, Mr. J. A Johnson. Miss Brownie Phillips has left for, Columbia Baptist hospital, where she will enter training. Mrs. Alary Anne Brown spent last week-end with her niece Mrs. J. E. Phillips. Miss Ruth Branch of Lumberton spent a few days last week with rela tives Air. W. R. Brown of Red Springs spent iast Alonday with his daughter, Airs. J E. Phillips. At tie home of her father, Mr. V. G, Pleasants, Mrs. J. Edison Lytch delightfully entertained the Wednes day afternoon Bridge club last week. Mrs. A. L. Bullock and son, Archie, spent the week-end in Charlotte with' Airs. Bullock's relatives. T)r. N H. Andrews spent several days of last week on a hunting trip at fswan Quarter, N. C. Rev. Jno. McSween of Anderson, 8. C., spent a few days at the home of Aliss Kate McKenzie. Miss Mary Edna Haseldon, who has been nursing in this community for several weeks, went Saturday to Lum berton, where she will undergo ad op eration for sinus trouble. SANFORD WINS STATE HIGH SCHOOL CHAMPIONSHIP Chapel IlilL Decc. 4.—(AP)—A fighting, golden-jerseyed football team from Sanford high schoo) de feated Charlotte high on Emerson field here today, 1J to 0, and romped off with the State high school chant* I pionship of 1926. Sanford presented a balanced at tack and a stubborn defense that could not be overcome and outptayed Char-1 lette in every phase of the gridiron game. t Twice since 1923 Sanford has won! the eastern title only to have her state championship hopes wrecked by western foes. In 1923 a great Char- j lotte eleven defeated her and last y&ar Gastonia triumphed in a game that was marked by the piucky fight of a light Sanford tine. FordlsStoien. Mr C H. McCormick of Rowland had the misfortune to have his Ford touring car stoien from his car shed, 100 yards from his house, iast mght. The thief or thieves rotted the car off down the road and made good their escape before they couid be caught Mr. McCormick is offering a reward for the return of fhe ear. Mr. E. if McNeiti in Extremis Mr. E If. McNeiH, who has been an invatid for the past several years, suf fered another stroke of paratysis Sat urday and is now in ^ttremis at his home on the Carthage ^rpad. —County Farm Agent O. O. Lfukes ieft yesterday to attend the annuai farm agents' conference in Rateigh. He wii! be away ait ftH; week. Mr. Dukes asks that anybody wanting to piace orders for pyrotoi or grass j seeds ieave them with Miss Nina Pitt man at the court house. NEED A NEW SUIT? SEE JOHN D. PURVIS, The Tailor. HAND TAILORED CLOTHES *2330 AND UP. NATIONAL LAN!) COMMMTEE SPENDS DAY STODY!NG PATE LANDS NEAR PEMBROKE Nation's Youngest? 'rrucASTtn Margaret Joyce of Atma, Nebr., is the youngest schoot teacher in Nebraska to hob) a state certificate. Onty 15 years old, Miss Joyce ia a graduate of high schoo! and is now teaching in a rura) schoo). If you know of a younger teacher this newspaper woutd )ike to receive name and age. David H. Fuller!. Now Co. Attorney Succeeds Mr E. J. Britt, Who Had Meid Office for fast 22 Years— Mr. J. G Hughes Eiected Chairman Board of County Commissioners. COUNTY OFFICERS INSTALLED Air.' David H. Fuiier of Lumberton was instn))ed as county attorney, suc ceeding Mr. PI. J. Britt, when the board of county commissioners re-convened at ) 20 this afternoon. Mr. Britt had heid the office since 1901, or for the past 22 years. Terms of otd officers expired at 12 o'ctock today, and the new officers were instated. Mr. G B. Setiers suc ceerted Mr. Rory McNair as county commissioner from district No. 2, he and Mrs. Eva Fioyd, who fitted out the itncxprred term of her husband, Mr. At. W. Ftoyd, as register of deeds, being the oniy new ofncers etected at the iast ciectfon. Air. J. G. Hughes was etected chair man of the board of county commis sioners, succeeding Air. Rory McNair at the head of the board Aii officers who were re-eiected took the oath of office at 12 o'ciock today and are now beginning their new terms in office. Morrison Has Good Day s Hunt !n Bladen Kitts 8 Birds and I Rabbit and stops by in Lumberton on Way Home to Cat! Up Airs. Morrison to Keep Servants Up Until He Arrives— Tatks I'otitics a Bit Whije Here. Former Governor Cameron Morri son of Chartotte spent Thursday near AbbottsbUrg hunting and returned to Charlotte that night with 8 birds and one rabbit he had kilted out of 11 shots, which is not considered bad at at! of a man who ha;? not shot a gun for the past 20 years. His two com panions, \V. G Pittman and W. W. Covington of Rockingham, bagged 17 birds during the day's hunt. The forme,- Governor stopped at the Lorraine hotel here on his return to Chariotte and tailed up Mrs. Morri son and toid her to keep the servants up untit he arrived with the birds, fo^ he wanted them cleaned that night. It was then 8:30 and 140 mites to K". Asked whom he was supporting for President the next election, Mr. Mor rison said he coutd teti whom he was not going to support and that wts A1 Smith, but that was about att the statement that couid be got out of him about the matter - Dr. H. M. Bake,- wilt speak at Zion's Tabernacte church next Sun day morning at 11 o'ctock. < 333 3 3333 * Hearse Stolen at Maxton. * * Deputy Waiter Smith, who is in * * town today, reports that a hearse * " was stoien at ^axton iast night * * but was found by officers aban- * * doned on a road near tqwn. Dr. J. * P. Hrown of Fairmont, "kidding'' * * Mr. Smith about the number of * * robberies recently at Maxton, * * which somewhat offset, Dr Drown * * claims, the gags he has heard * - about the number ^ of fires at * * Fairmont, said, when Mr. Smith * * toid him about the hearse being * * stolen, that the meanest man is * * not dead yet. Whether the hearse * * was driven away as a prank by * * some boys or in an effort to * " steal it, is not known * V * * 3 3 3 3 3 3 YES! We will keep opr repair de partment open during the Christmas holidays. All repair work will re ceive our prompt attention. MOOHE'S GIFT SHOD. Phene t54 Chestnut St. Pate Estate Only Land in Worth Carolina Visited by Committee in Its Study of Land in 6 South ern States for Reclamation Pur poses—Survey Wiil Inchtde A!1 That Is Involved # Creation of Comfortable, Permanent Farm ing Community. COMMITTEE ENTERTAINED AT INDIAN NORMAL (By H A (River of The Hwbesonian Staff) A speciat committee named by the Secretary of the Interior to study Southern iands with a view of es tablishing community settiements of )00 famiiiea or more teft Pembroke, Robeson county, Friday, December 3rd, at 2 o'clock aboard a special train of the Seaboard Air Line Railway for Charieston, S. C., after spending a great part of the day studying farm ing conditions in the Lumber river cana) zone between Pembroke and - Raynham. The committee arrived in Pembroke over the Seaboard about ten o'ciock Friday morning on the "Yellowstone," the Northern Pacific officers' car, the same that was occupied by Queen Matie of Roumania and her attend ants in their trip through the United States, and the "Portsmouth," the officer*' car of the S. A. L. Railway ft was met here by Wade H. Phillips, director of the State Department of Conservation and Development; Prof. C. B. Williams, head of the depart ment of agronomy, State college, Ral eigh; S. B. Smithy, superintendent of the Cherokee Indian normal, Pem broke; A. F. Corbin, agriculturaf teacher in the normal; R. H. Liver more, president of the Bank of Pem broke; Dr G. M. Pate, Rowland; C. T. Pate, Purvis; W. J. Edens, Hamlet, development agent of the S. A. L. i railway; Oscar Sampson, president of ^ the board of trustees of the Indian ! normal, and several other local citi zens. John Deese of Pembroke acted as Indian guide to the committee, and I cars for the trip were furnished by the agricultural class at p)e Indian ! normal, with the boys acting as ! guides-. Visit Pate Estate. Shortly after reaching here the committee went by automobile to the -1,700 acre Pate estate between Pem broke and Purvis, as it was that sec tion that was recommended by soi experts sent out by State college at the most favorable found in North Carolina for reclamation purposes. Dr G. M. and Mr. C. T. Pate were there to explain the possibilities of I the land, and the committee express ed great satisfaction at what they saw. It is the purpose of the United States government to take over areas of land similar to that of the Pate estate and establish a farming colony, with a (nan in charge, Elwood Mead, Commissioner of Reclamation, who accompanied the committee, stated, ; however, that the government would not propose ta establish a development there with the present crops of cotton, [corn and tobacco only, and studied ! the land for its dairying advantages, ' He does not advocate dairying on a i large scale but on' a scale similar to that of the State land colony in Dur ham, California, in which he is inter , ested. There the farmers have only ) X) or 12 cows and are able to handle them in connection with their regular farm work without much extra ef fort. On the Pate tract of land Com missioner Mead found good soil foan i dation for dairying, he stated. * rurpose or rtectamauon survey, i When naked to out!ine the purpose ] of the reclamation survey, Commis sioner Mead said it was wet! express ed in an inscription on the Coilege of Agriculture of the University of Cal tfornia, which stated the object of that college is "to rescue for human society the native values of rural life." The South was selected for the initial studies of a nation-wide investigation authorized by Congress because of a belief that its latent possibilities made it a fruitful field for such study. More Than Draining Swamps. Reclamation as interpreted in this survey", stated Commissioner Mead, "means more than draining swamps or pulling stumps. It includes a)! that is involved in the creation of a com fortable, permanent farming commun ity. This survey is in one sense a continuation of the studies made by the Country Life commission appoint ed by President Roosevelt 13 years ago. The report of that commission, by cailing attention to some of the little-thought-of needs of life in the open country, has worked a continuing benefit to agriculture It is hoped tha out of this study of undeveloped areas m 6 states there will come suggestions which witl help create on those areas organized rural communities figured to meet the conditions and which wil* make the most of a climate suited t< out-door life and with great markets (Continued on page Four)