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. -* l.tbmry n THE COURIER Leads in Both Nets and Circulation Wm K fED WEEKLY VOLUMB L ==£= £ PRIN Aaheboro, North Carolina, , NOT MEN y, February 19, 1925 152.00 A YEAR IN ADVANCE W - ' — ' ' . NUMBER 8 UP LOT OF TIME r Fight Over Poole’s Evolution Measure Bara Forward March of Lawmakers. CRv M. L. Shipman) Raleigh, N. C., February 16, 1925.— The light over redistricting the State discussion of the “evolution” meas ure, bar the forward march along legislative paths of the $20,000,000 bond issue for roads bill, together with a companion measure to in crease the gasoline tax from three to four cents a gallon, decision of the House committee not to recommend the establishment of a state consta bulary, and various other matters of more or less importance occupied the time of the General assembly during the past week. The road bonds issue measure pass ed in the Senate on all readings. A companion measure introduced by Sams" of Forsyth who also introduced the bond bill, provides for revision of the regulations having to do with con trol of the highway fund for an in crease in the gasoline tax from three to four cents to finance the new road bond issue. Passage of similar measures in the House is expected without any difficulty, thus carrying out Governor McLean’s, plan in this particular without any change. “Evolution” was discussed at length before committee last week and final ly a vote revealed that the education committee was deadlocked 16 to 16. Representative “Tobe” Connor step ped, into the breach with a negative vote, he being chairman of the com mittee. The bill was thus sent back to the house with an unfavorable re port Its proponents, who aver that evolution should be taboo in the schools of North Carolina entered a minority report and the measure will have a special hearing on this report tomorrow (Tuesday) night at eight o’clock, when the subject will be up on tiie floor of tin House. Redistricting the State was provid ed for in a measure finally passed by the House creating four additional judicial districts with judges and so licitors. The bill whan first introduced provided for seven new districts, but was killed by the House cm its second reading. Representative “Pete" Mur phy of Rowan succeeded in getting a motion to reconsider the vote #» again eame^ up ia un nn» » amended to provide four instead of seven additional districts end passed by a safe majority. Chief among the arguments presented against it was that qf economy, it being averred that the extra districts will increase the cost of the State government by more than $50,060 a year. Its proponents argued that the condition of the dock ets in various counties made an in crease a necessity. 1 The proposal to establish a State constabulary was made by Represen tative Wade who introduced a bill in line with recommendations of the so cial committee which investigated this subject. An unfavorable report on the bill was returned but it will be up again on a minority report. How ever the House does not appear to think well of the proposition and will more than likely sustain the majority report A sales tax, independent of the revenue bill was sent up in the House by Representative Madison, of Jack son on Saturday who would tax cig ars, cigarettes, candies, cosmetics, and other minor purchases. The bill providing, what are commonly term ed “nuisance” taxes, went to the fin ance oommittee. It is wellmamed in the opinion of a formidable group of legislators and others. The senate passed a bill which re duced the personal property tax ex emption from $800 to $50, over the protest of many senators. It is pro dieted this bill will have a hard road in the House which will probably show greater consideration for the “ninety and nine”. Financial legislation is expected to occupy the center of the Stage dur ing the coming week. The revenue bill it was indicated, will provide for a fifty par cent increase in the income tax rates, but the other changes in tbs bill from the report of the State Board of assessments have not been made public. The budget report for the biennial period, containing the appropriations for departments and institutions, is also exported to be presented by the appropriation committee of the House which has bad it for some time. RANDOLPH’S RANK IN SCHOOL ATTENDANCE Stands 83rd Hi Percentage of Attendance—Ranks 32nd In Colored Attendance. ( ■ "The enrollment in the schools of Randolph county during the school year 1923-24 numbered 6,992 with an average daily attendance of 4,013, or 67 per cent of the enrollment. In the matter of percentage of attend ance the county ranked 88 among the 100 counties of the State. During the same period there were enrolled in the colored schools 979 pupils and the average daily attendance ’ in / these schools was 703, or 71.8 per cent of the enrollment. In this the county ranked 32nd, There were enrolled in the entire rural and city school systems of the State during 1923-24, a total of 644, 142 pupils. Of this number 410,834 were enrolled in the rural schools and 133,308, or 24.5 per cent of the en tire enrollment, in the city schools. In a(l the white schools of the State we tod that upon an average 74.7 children of each 100 enrolled in 1923 24 went to school each day, while 25.3 failed to take advantage pf the schools. This means that average daily attendance of white children is 137,481 less than the enrollment. Of the colored children, 33.8 out of each 100 enrolled failed to attend. Of the 248,904 pupils enrolled in the colored schools, 191,607, or 77 per cent, were enrolled in the rural schools, and 57,297, or 23 per cent, were enrolled in the city schools. The retail store of the Carolina Light and Power Company located in the McDowell building on Depot street will be opened' for business next Monday. It is the intention of the management to have a formal opeing lasting all day Monday and invitations to this opening will be sent from the local office of the com pany the latter part of the week. The retail store will handle a full line of electric light fixtures and appliances. Mr. J. C. Senter will have charge of the local sales at the company. fnom timb to ions of elec tric appliances at its store. A special rate le offered by tin company for Moves which Will be carried Jai Carolina Power Company To Open Retail Store Monday last Week’s Puzzle Contest • Many answers were received to the cross-words puzzle published in last week’s issue of The Courier in con nection with a page of advertising of Randolph county merchant^. The re turns indicate that there is a great deal of interest in the county in these contests. Mr. Elmer Allred, of Franklinvflle, was the winner of the first prize given to those living out side of the town of Asheboro. Mrs. B. H. McCam, of Seagrove, won the second prize. Prize winners for Asheboro are Mrs. George Burkhead, first prize, and James York, second prize. Following is the answer to last week’s puzzle. * VERTICAL 26. Fit. 27. Men. 1. In. 2. Save. 3. Here. 4. Do. 5. Account. 7. We. 9. Ramseur. 12. Tis. 13. Aim. 17. Don’t. 18. From, 21. To. * 28. Of. 2b. On. , HORIZONTAL 1 Its. 3. Had. 6. An. 6. Awe. 8. Or. 10. Every. 11. Ct is. Am. 14. Oil. 15. His. 16. Us. 19. Me. 20. Motor. 22. To. 24. Nor. 25. Or. Week’s Activities Net Number of Prisoners Sheriff and Deputies Got a Number Far Liquor Offenses—Bring In Several Cara. Activities of Sheriff J. F. Cranford land his deputise and Chief of Police C. W. Steed during the past few days have netted a good haul of prisoners, cars, whiskey and stills. Dallas Hill, Lemuel Ashworth, a Mr. Bowman, Bay Coble, and a negro by the name of Brown are in Jail charged with viola tions of the prohibition laws. Coble faces a number of other charges. Three cars have been brought in, one an Essex, which was so badly damaged that it had to be hauled in and is now. at the Newsom Motor Company, another a Ford sedan, and the third a Ford skeeter. A large cop per still is also among the captured property. The still was brought in Sunday by deputy sheriff Pugh of near Ramseur. From the information we are able to obtain the still was housed in a tent when found. < The negro, who is now occupying a cell in the Jail, it is understood was caught while driving a car under the influence of liquor. Another negro who was with him at the time gave bond at the preliminary hearing. Special Service at Preabyteriaa V;, • -;v . .1 * Officers Capture Dallas Hill After Long: Chase Leads From King Tut ,to Worthrille— Find Liquor In Car—Take Two Prisoner* Dallas Hill and a Mr. Bowman were caught above Worthville Mon day afternoon after an exciting chase in which chief of Police C. W. Steed, of Asheboro, Sheriff J. F. Cranford, and federal prohibition officer W. J. Moore, and others took part. The of ficers were looking for Hill in' con nection with an acetdent which hap pened on the Liberty road near Mill boro Sunday. •' -*v The chase started from the King Tut filling station, north of Ashe boro, and ended only after the tires had been shot down on Hill’s car, a Ford sedan. A Mr. Bowman was In the car;with Hill when he was ar rested. A small quantity of liquor was found in a fruit jar m the car. In the accident on the Liberty road Sunday in which Hill figured hap pened when he and Lemuel Ashworth in an Essex touring car ran into a car driven by John Martin, of High Point. Hill’s car hooked one of the rear wheels of Martin’s car badly damaging Martin’s car, a Buick, but not seriously injuring the occupants of the car. Hill’s car ran off the road into a large tree and was prac tically demolished. He escaped with out injury, but Mr. Ashworth suffer ed a cut ’on his forehead. When the officers arrived both Hill and Ashworth were gone. The latter was arrested later in the day at the McNeill house about two miles north of Asheboro. RANDOLPH MAN MAKES GOOD IN NEW YORK Dr. Holland Thompson, Native of Randolph, Wins Fame as Educator and Writer. Dr. Holland Thompson, a native of Randolph count;, now a professor in the department of history in the Col lege of the City of New York, was the subject of a lengthy article in lkst Sunday’s issueofthe Greensboro News. Dr. Thompson is one of many native North Carolinians who has won fame in other states. •. \ Dr. Thompson wes'born at the res idence of hie' grandfather, the late Thomas Rice, whip lived about one milr of Farmer, ih Concord township, this cofanty, in 1878. His father was D. Matt Thompon,.wbo before he sdcMent ih fP2§, had bedh for nearly thirty years superintendent of schools at Statesville, Drl.Thompson's mother before 'her marriage was Mary Elis abeth Rice. She at one time taught school at old Concord academy. Both grandparents of Dr. Thompson are buried in the cemetery of Concord church, at Farmer. Two of his aunts, Fanny and Lucy Rice, who were in valids for years, died some 15 years ago and they also rest in Concord cem etery. Other kinspeople of Dr. Thompson in this county are Adam Thompson, an uncle, who lives in the eastern part of the county, and Mrs. Sarah J. Lowe, an aunt, who lives on Ashe boro, Route 3. The* late Wilbur Rice, who was the husband of Mrs. Bessie Rice, of the Asheboro graded school faculty, was a cousin of Dr. Thomp son. Dr. Thompson graduated at the University of North Carolina in the class of 1895, and for four years after his graduation was principal of the' academy at Concord. He went from there to Columbia University and while still studying at Columbia was elected a member of the faculty of the College of the CSty of New York*. He has lectured in all parts of the country on various subjects. Hi is a member of a number of the leading societies of the country, a contributor to several nationally known encyclopedias and magazines. His first book. was ''“From Cotton Field to Cotton Mill”, dealing with the industrial transition in North Carolina. Following the publication of this book he has written several oth ers and also a number of special ar ticles on various subjects. ■ ■ , Find Scene Of Explosion Which Caused Excitement The scene of the explosion which startled the people-of Asheboro early Sunday morning, February 8th, and which was reported by many papers as being an earthquake, has been lo cated. It is a hole about the sixe of an ordinary wash tub in a field about a hundred yards on the left-hand side of the Asheboro-Thomasville highway a few hundred yards west of the corporate limits of town. Evi dently a quantity of explosive had been placed in a hole dug in the ground aiid set off causing the ex plosion which alarmed the people and created quite a shock in Asheboro and vicinity. Meter -Tester Examining Meters in Asheboro T. D. Wills, expert meter tester for the Carolina Light and Power Company, is in the city testing the * the town. The company Willis here in order he may examine all meters and service the Kentucky** Great Cave Drama Civilians and militia at work at the mouth of Sand Cave, Ky., in the effort to rescue or recover the body of Fl#d Collins, trapped first in a narrow cavern by a slid ing boulder for a. full week, then sealed in by a cave-in as rescue seemed certain. Insert is a recent picture of Floyd Collins, made dur ing one of this previous explora tions. More than 6000 people visited the scene the second Sun day of his imprisonment, finally going into a great hillside meeting, singing and praying for his rescue. Death Wins Its Race By Narrow Margin of 24 Hours When Collins Is Found Dead In Cave The body of Floyd Collins, trapped in Sand cave, «ear Cave, City, Kyi, for 17 days waa found Monday after noon by workere who have been for 11 days sinking a hole in the earth above the cave in an effort to reach Collins before he didd. Collins was trapped in Sand eaye* by a falling boulder Friday looming, January 30. Twenty-four hours later his plight was discovered and a. fight began ; to rescue.him-; Many difficulties were encountered. One* as his rescue was about to be Baade dragging him out of them*rww pdi|*Hhe WaUs caved in and trapped him beyond hope of Organize Pass In Mechanical Drawing Here Tuesday Night A class in mechanical drawing was organized by the Extension Depart ment of the University of North Car olina at the court house Tuesday night. More than twenty-five people attended the meeting at which the class was organized. Mr. G. B. Zeh mer, head of the mechanical drawing course of the University Extension, and G. Wallace Smith, instructor, were present. A class of 16 was organized, com posed of ten from Asheboro, two from Ramseur, and four from, liber m The . first meeting of the class will be held next Tuesday night at, 7:30 {o’clock at the school building in Asheboro. . Methodist Episcopal Matters W. H. Willis We were sorry,to miss Rev. J. A. Cook, of Randleman, who called yes terday. Our people have conducted cottage meetings recently at the homes of A. Page Gay. Messrs. W. J. Arrpfield, Jr. and D. B. McCrary attended the District Laymen's Meeting at Greensboro Sunday. The new church building is now in the hands of the roofers and plaster ers. , The Valentine supper served at the court house by our ladies netted $46. 75. “Borne Heavenward on a Whirl wind” will be the pastor’s subject Sunday morning. At night, “The Corse Cured”, this being the last of the series on the “Lost Paradise”. The writer received Valentines as follows: A prepared meal from Mrs. W. H. Moving, a dressed hen from R. E. Betts, a package of dainties from Mrs. J. D. Ross. SCHOOL ENROL! ATTENDANT The percentage of the school popu lation enrolled in 1900-1901 was 65.1. The general desire for schooling has evidently increased since that time, for we had 86.1 per cent of -our school population enrolled last year. Regularity of attendance is far from achieved in North Carolina, but even Oils has improved greatly since 1900, when we had but 69 per cent of the enrollment in white Schools and 58 per cent in colored schools attend ing daily. Last year there was 74.7 per cent of the white and 66.2 per cent of the colored enrollment in at rescue in this manner. Electric lights were placed in the passage and food was brought to the trapped man. A rescue force was organized to dig a shaft to the cave. This work was hindered by cave-ins so that thei body was not found until Monday after noon. One of his legs, which was caught by a boulder, was amputated in order that the body could be brought out. " , The funeral services were held Tuesday; on a hill overlooking Sand cave. The hgdbt.vrill be left in the cave aad the entraneTWffl belated. rT. M. Crowson Dies At His % Home In Trinity Township T. M. Crowson, aged 73, well known farmer of the northern part of Ran dolph county, died at his home at Trinity Monday morning following a stroke of paralysis. Mr. Crowson had been a resident of Trinity for 31 years and was at all times . prominently identified with the best interests of his community and county. In addition to his widow he is sur vived by five sons, J. A. Crowson, of Staley; W. S. Crowson, of Trinity; H. M. Crowson, of Osborn, N. J.; E. C. Crowson, of Trinity, and Ben Crowson, of High Point. He also is survived by three daughters, Mrs. N. C. Johnson, of High Point, and Mrs. W. D.' English and Mrs. I, L. j Kennedy of Trinity, and by a broth er, W. S. Crowson, of Asheboro. The funeral services were conduct ed at Mt. Gilead church Tuesday ! morning by Rev. J. E. Woosley and : Rev. C. E. Harris. Interment was | made in the church cemetery. Dr. J. 0. Atkinson To Be At Liberty Sunday Dr. J. 0. Atkinson, of Elon College, Foreign Mission Secretary of the Southern Christian Convention, will preach at the Christian church, at Liberty, Sunday, February 22nd, at both morning and evening services. His subject for the morning service at 11 o’clock will be “Our Church Obligations.” Subject for the evening service will be "The Church and Community.” Dr. Atkinson is an excellent speal and the people of Liberty are fortun ate to obtain his services Sunday. 1 is hoped that a large number of the citizens of this community as well as numbers from other parts of the coun ty will come out to hear Dr. Atkinson. Deficit A recent audit of the records of the various county officers of Montgom ery county reveals some interesting facts relative to the financial condi tion of the county. The audit covers the period from December 1st, 1919, to April 1st, 1924. According to the audit the new court house at Troy cost $200,660.59. The outstanding feature of the au dit is the fact that the county had a deficit April 1st, 1924, of $65,677.70. It was also found that one issue of road and bridge bonds of $100,000 was sold by the county authorities after effort for $93,120.00 and accu ulated interest. Much criticism was made of the stem of keeping records in the va of the county. All the but a of Mr. H. C. Bates, Dairy Specialist, In County Spoke To Business Men of Asheboro Monday Night—Holding Meetings In County. Mr. H. C. Bates, dairy cattle spec ialist of the Sc’.thern railway system, is in the county this week w'th cr, ,i: ty far.n demor.stra cr E. S. Millsaps, Jr., conducting a series of meetings r. an effort to ireste an interest in the dairy industry of Randolph. Monday night he spoke to .he business men of Asheboro in a meeting at the court house. Tuesday morning a meeting was held at Hal Kearns’ store and Tuesday night at Farmer school house. Last night a meeting was held at Holly Springs school house and tonight a meeting will be held at Seagrove. Friday morning a group meeting will be held at Marley’s school house and Friday afternoon there will be a meeting held at Parks Cross Roads school house. The hours of these meetings were denounced in last week’s issue of this paper. In his talk to the business men of Asheboro Monday night, Mr. Bates stressed the relationship between the business men of the town and the farmers of the county. He pointed out that the prosperity of the mer chant and business men of the town was linked inseparably with the pros perity and welfare of the farmers who do their trading and banking in the town. He called attention to many instances in many counties of this and other Southeastern states in which the promotion of dairying had brought prosperity to both farmers and business men. Quite a lot of interest has been tak en in the series of meetings which Mr. Bates and Mr. Millsaps have been holding and it is anticipated that something of lasting good to the county will result from them. Mrs. Nancy Kearns Dies At Jackson Hill Mrs. Nancy Kearns died at the home of her daughter, Mrs. T. S. Everhardt; at Jackson Hill last Wed nesday, at the age of 74 years. Mrs. Kearns had been critically ill with bronchial pneumonia for several days prior to bag death. She is survived by one brbfbtr, H. Lee Kearns; oi Fanner, She was the daughter of the late .Harrison and Susan Dicks Kearns. The funeral and burial ser ' ' icted at Cedar ST 'LatThursday.' Prof. White Commits Suicide At Guilford Prof. L. Lea White, aged 40, head of the department of education at Guilford college, committed suicide by shooting himself with a shot gun at his home near the college Monday morning. He recently suffered an at tack of influenza following a nervous breakdown and had been in bad health since. Despondency over his condi tion is the reason assigned for the act. He had been a member of the college faculty for three years, and prior to that was principal of the Winston Salem high school for several years. Professor White was a native of Trinity, this county, the son of Isaac A. White, who now lives in Raleigh. He was a nephew of- the late Julius White. He is survived in addition to his widow and father by four small children, Lucy May, Martha Gray, Lindon Lea and Frank White; and two brothers, Ernest White, oi Greensboro, and Julian White, of Ra leigh. „ The funeral services were held at Guilford College Tuesday. £d Wade Raptured Ed Wade, who escaped from the Davidson county jail about three years ago, was arrested in High Point last Friday and turned over to Sheriff R. B. Talbert, of Davidson county. Wade is remembered in this county for his many automobile steal ing escapades in this section. A broth er, Will Wade, is serving a sentence hi the penitentiary for theft of an automobile. BUYING POWER OF THE DOLLAR IN YEAR 1925 The dollar started 1925 with a pur chasing power of 64 cents on the basis of the year 1913, when the dollar is accepted as having a buying power oi 100 cents. This reckoning is based on Hie buying power of the dollar in wholesale markets. When it is said that the dollar now has a purchasing power of 64 cents the understanding is that what it takes one dollar to purchase now 64 cents would buy in 1913. The assump tion that the dollar was at its par oi 100 cents in 1913 so far as purchasing power is concerned is arbitrary and is accepted for the purpose of compari son. When prices rise the purchasing power of the dollar falls in propor tion. The closing days of 1924 saw s slight rise in the level of wholesale prices, and government statistician! have studied the extent of that rise. From these studies it is shown thai the dollar went into the year 1921 worth 64 cents, as compared witi ma. TAX BURDEN W STATE NOT HEAVY [n Only Three States Is Tar Burden Lower—McLean on Right Tracfe. The total tax burden in North Caro lina in 1922 amounted to $47,800,000, as follows: state taxes, $9,933,000; county taxes, $20,732,000; incorpo- , rated towns and cities, $11,701,000; specified divisions, mainly school and drainage districts, $5,114,000. Under the present law nobody in North Carolina pays to the State any direct tax on forms, city lots, or pers onal property, to support state de partments and state institutions of education, benevolence, and correction. • Legislative appropriations must there fore be made out of the General Fund of the State, and nobody pays any thing- into this fund unless he pays - income or inheritance taxes, or en joys direct benefits paid for in licen se or special permit fees, business taxes, sales taxes and the like. This M means that only about 500,000 of the 2,700,000 people of the State contrib uted to the support of the State gov ernment in 1922. But divided by the total population, this lump sum av eraged $3.76 per inhabitant. It was || less in only three states, namely Georgia, Arkansas, and Oklahoma. It was more in 44 states, ranging from $4.05 in South Carolina to $24.47 in Nevada. Cheapness is always a doubtful matter, but economy -and efficiency are superlative concerns in business and government alike. Taxes are never likely to be less than now in any pro* gressive state or country of the world at any time in the future. But econ omy and efficiency are a sure guar antee of steady progress, and seeing that the taxpayer—state, county, or municipal—derives a one hundred per cent value in return for every dol lar of taxes paid is a distinct, delib erate purpose of Governor McLean. There can be no higher political aim in North Carolina at this time economy and efficiency ip municipal . government,. county government, and state government. There can be ne efficiency in public business any* 1 where without responsible executive headship in a unified administrative control of things. Under our elective system there can be no unity ip ad- ; ® ministrative goVernmedt without fie* forebd by a proper accounting for and reporting upon all public moneys handled. No business and no govern- a ment rises higher than the level of its bookkeeping. For instance, the State has been gradually moving into a State Aud itor’s Department as a central clear ing house of State finances: that ia to say, the State Auditor has been coming little by little to be a State Auditor in fact as well as in name. At present only one state department is holding out. This department will probably find it wise to get in out of the rain. The state govemmeht at the capital has long been a loosely related offi cial family. How the State could have handled its funds these long years without family official unity in fiscal matters on a budget basis with a re sponsible official head controlling state finances passes comprehension. Perhaps nobody in North Carolina sees this essential fact any more clearly than Governor McLean; and we Understand it to be his distinct purpose to give the State a business administration in these essential mat ters of public finance. And to do it not only in State finances but in county and municipal finances. The city, or the county, or the state that cannot draw a daily bal ance sheet like any bank is a long way from economy and efficiency. Our new Governor has a long, hard job ahead of him. It canpot be turned off in a single session of the Legislature or in any one or half-dosen yean; but it is an essential matter everywhere in North Carolina. It has been neg lected too long. Our greatest step forward will be made in public fi nance on some proper and possible basis of accounting for public mon eys handled in state department* and state institutions, state business agencies, county offices and munici pal departments. Voted Moot Pouplar In CU* Grady Kirkman, a senior studen._ the Atlanta-Southern Dental College, and resident of Randleman, has beer voted the most popular student t his class. Mr. Kirkman has held ny offices in the student organise tions of the college. He is the presi dent of the senior class and will gfmi uate this coming May with of ninety.
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