The
Stanly
News-Herald
ffhe Albemarle News Established in 1880.
Fortieth Year.
The Stanly County Herald Established in 1919
Albemarle. N. C Tuesday, February 15, 1921
$2.00 Per Year in Advance
' DEESTRICT SKULE" TO WOULD CENSOR MOVES BUILDING BOOM HAS THOMAS J. JEROME DES BRIEF NEWS ITEMS OF
BE GIVEN FEBRUARY 22 ; AND FIX HOTEL RATES; STARTED IN THE TOWN
'roceeds Will Go Towards Fur
nishing the Home Economics
Class Room in the School.
k A VERY WORTHY CAUSE
A good, hearty, side-splitting laugh
i coming Albemarle's way, and is
j.-oked for Tuesday evening, Febru
iry 22nd. The occasion is the giving
j: a comic, old-fashioned school clos
ing, with all the cute little boys and
jainty lasses as well as the sober
james and stately patrons of fifty
rears ago. This entertainment is to
je given under the auspices of the
Merry Matrons Club, and the pro
eeds from ticket sales will go to
he equipping of one of the rooms in
;he new graded school building for
;he study of home economics. "The
beestrict Skule" is the official name
If the entertainment. There will be
In this entertainment interesting little
kneeches by full-grown men and wo
v.vn, but who will be costumed as
ittle girls and boys, and these will
put as much fun into the entertain
nent as possible. The teacher, the
nusicians, the fathers and mothers
: the children, yes, even the dignified
-kule commity" will be represented
n the persons of some of Albemarle's
nost prominent men. That nothing
ihall be undone to fully carry out the
Skule-brakin' idea, even the visiting
gentlemen of prominence will be on
uind to deliver a school closing ad-
Iress. If we were to give the name of
he man who will act the part of the
Ichool breaking orator, you would al-
eady start laughing now, but the la-
f!es have censored us against naming
ny of the persons who shall take
bart. However, you 11 know them
then the entertainment conies off.
Jfou may even know the little girl
kho recites "Mary's Little Lamb."
The admission fee will be 25 cents
or small children and 50 cents for
he larger children and adults. The
ntertainment will be given in the
traded school auditorium, and will
lommence at 8:15 o'clock.
It is hoped that a large crowd will
Ittend, as the cause for which it is
riven is a very laudable one. Of
mrse, we take it, all of the News-
Herald readers know fully just what
ome economics covers, but that you
tiay fully appreciate what its full
leaning is we quote the following
rom a recent article appearing in
he Greensboro Daily News by Mrs.
K, T. Bost:
Miss Edith M. Thomas, of Raleigh,
Itate supervisaor of home economics,
hose one aim is to turn out efficient
nd capable home-makers of the fu-
fare, has now 50 high school classes
l the state taking this course of in-
t ruction besides the 10 or 12 evenng
'asse sof olde rwomen specializing
l millinery, dress-making, cooking,
some other branch of the work.
The time has passed," Miss Thomas
taid a day or two ago, "when only 2
pings were included i nthe Domestic
ti'ip.npp nilrsp? tfnn1rinir and sewiniF.
AV'e teach cookinsr and sewing, of
'ourse, but we also teach household
fidgeting and household management,
nd any other phase of work in the
pconomics of the home that tends to
make good housewives and home-makers."
In the high schools Miss Tho
rias would have home economics a
part of the course along with litera
ture, science, mathematics and other
branches. She considers that it is of
l ital importance to the girl to know
something of home management, and
those things that go into the making
f an efficient home when she leaves
!ne high school. Under the old re
time, home economics in the school
t ourse wias considered simply a fad,
l nd even the parents sometimes rath
f fiiscouraged their daughters taking
5. up. "You'd better spend your time
t your Latin: I can teach you here at
pome all the sewing and cooking you
kaght to know," they'd say. And so
"tie college and high school girls were
- ont to spend long and laborious hour
-i Latin translation and an mfinitesi-
ial fraction of time in the study of
making for which a majority of them
-ave a decidedly strong inclination.
Neither theoretically or technically
kan the mother teach the daughter "all
'he ought to know" in home econom
ie for this is an age of progress, and
- a rule, mothers are going to teach
their daughters, pretty much the same
"hhigs that they were taught when
j".hey were young. In some eases, of
' (Continued on page eight.)
Bill Before House Provides For
Censorship Board and Regu
lations As To Hotels.
LIVELY TILT IN HOUSE
(Raleigh Times.)
Bill providing for State-wide cen
sorship of moving pictures and to
regulate the charges of hotels, res
taurants and cafes in North Carolina
featured the introductions in the low
er house of the genera assembly at
Friday's session.
The two measures were laid before
the House just prior to adoption by
the body of the conference commit
tees reDort on Tom Bowie's bill abol
ishing the office of treasurer of Ashe
County by a vote of 59 to 36. The bill
was then put before the house and
passed.
The first signs of a break in the
Doughton-Bowie ranks came after
the House had worked its way half
through the session when Represen
tative Bowie moved to have his bill
providing for a reduction of twenty
five per cent in all real estate values
taken from the finance committee. He
wanted the House to pass upon the
measure before the ad valorem rate
for 1921 was agreed upon. ,
Dough ton Objects.
Governor Doughton objected, and
asked how the representative from
Ashe arrived at the decision that 25
per cent cut was a fair ancr equitable
t eduction.
"I do not arrigate to myself the
right to say that it is just," Mr.
Bowie replied, "but I do contend that
the . House ought to say whether it is
or not, and I am firmly of the opinion
that the motion should prevail."
Mr. Bowie, after "urther objection
by Governor Doughton, said that he
would withdraw his motion with the
understanding that the bill would be
acted upon by the committee. This
brought the "Grand Old Man" to
his feet again.
"I am not speaking for the other
members of the finance committee,
and I am not making any agreement
with anybody," he said amid cheers.
"I think the finance committee will
recommend a reduction in land valua
tions, but the work has not been at
this time completed."
ReDresentative Bowie then with
drew his motion but served notice that
if his bill was not reported by the
committee he would renew it at Sat
urday's session.
Regulate Hotels.
The bill to regulate the charges of
hotels, restaurants anct cafes in the
State was introduced by Representa
tive Gosney' of Wake. The bill pro
vides that no hotel operated on the
American .plan shall be allowed to
charge for the room alone "more than
one-fourth of the rate per day for that
room with all meals and no hotels so
operated shall charge for such room
with one or more additional meals
more than one-fourth of said publish
ed rate plus one-fourth of said rate
for each meal taken by the guest oc
cupying said room."
Hotels which rent to guests in
which there are more than one bed
are to be required to make and publish
a rate for each room when occupied
by only one guest, not to exceed the
single rate by more than, twenty-five
per cent for each additional guest.
The bill also provides:
"That no hotel, cafe or restaurant
or lunch counter in this state shall
charge for any article of food or dish
of food served and sold to a patron
a nrice which shall be greater than
twice the retail price of such raw ar
ticle of food or the ingredients of
such dish when purchased cn the h
cal market.'
For violations of the above law a
fine of not less than thirty dollars
and not more than fifty dollars, or by
imm-isonment of not less than ten and
not more than thirty days, or both.
Censorship of Movies.
To carrv out the provisions of the
State-wide censorship of all moving
pictures in the bill Introduced by
Representative Matthews of Bertie,
the North Carolina State Board of
censors is provided for, to be compos
ed of two men and one woman, to be
appointed by the Governor.
All pictures must be approved oy
the board, and only those recognized
as "moral and proper are to be en-
Many Residents Will Begin Con
struction at Once Others to
Follow in the Near Future.
AT HOME IN GREENSBORO STATE-WIDE INTEREST
Was Well Known All Over State
Had Practiced Law in Many
Towns Once Editor Here.
MORE BUSINESS HOUSES? WAS A BRILLIANT WRITER
The News-Herald has heretofore
predicted a great revival in building
when the spring opens up, and indi
cations are that our predictions are
going to come true.
Clyde Skidmore has purchased a
lot in East Albemarle, and says that
he will commence the erection of a
bungalow in the spring. Lee Mor
row, it is announced, will build; Bob
Austin and Nat Auton are among
those who will build new homes in the
near future. Roy Brooks will also
build a handsome residence on his
lot which is located just opposite from
the A. P. Harris home in East Albe
marle. There is some talk to the ef
fect that new business buildings may
also start in the spring and this we
badly need. Just at this time the
writer knows of a number of hustling
business men who would go in busi
ness in Albemarle if they only had a
place in which to do business, but
there is no vacant store room or of
fices in the entire town. There never
was a time in the history of this or
any other town when business head
quarters, office rooms, etc., were in
greater demand than they are now.
Residences for rent are also unobtain
able, and just as fast as they are built
they are all spoken for long before
completion.
Talk also becomes more general as
the days pass to the effect that the
congregation of the Presbyterian
church may decide to get busy in the
erection of the new church structure
as soon as the weather gets warm and
agreeable.
These are just a few of the possibil
ities which are no longer remote in the
building line, and it now seems a cer
tainty that by the time the roses are
blooming again the sound of the ham
mer and the saw will be one of the
chief noises heard in and around Albemarle.
AMERICAN LEGION MEETS
The Walter B. Hill Post of the
American Legion will hold its regular
monthly meeting Thursday, February
17th, at 7:30 o'clock, at the court
house. Matters of vital importance
to the local post will be taken up at
this meeting. There are only a few
of last year's members who have not
paid up for 1921. All dues must be
paid in time to reach national head
quarters by the 28th of the month or
you will be dropped from the roll and
your subscription to the American Le
gion weekly will be discontinued. Ev
erymember of the American Legion
and all ex-service men are urged to
be present.
COMMUNITY SERVICE PROGRAM
Almond, Wed., Feb. 16, 3:30.
Mission, Wed., Feb. 16, 7:30.
Endy, Thurs, Feb. 17, 7:30.
Fairview, Fri., Feb. 18, 7:30.
Stanfield, Sat, Feb. 19, 7:30.
Bethel, Mon., Feb. 21, 7:30.
Bloomington, Tues., Feb. 22, 7:30.
Kirk, Wed, Feb. 23, 7:30.
Harward, Thurs, Feb. 24, 7:30.
Brooks, Fri, Feb. 25, 7:30.
Aquadale, Sat, Feb. 26, 7:30.
dorsed, and those "sacriligious, ob
scene or clearly immoral, or such as
may tend to debase or corrupt the
morals of persons viewing them are
to be disapproved.
State Would Pay Bill
Censorship offices are to be estab
lished in Raleigh, at State expense
and the purpose of the proposed law
is to tax the exhibitors on the basis
of $1.00 for each twelve hundred feet
of film inspected. The censors are
to be bonded in the sum of $4,000,
two housand and two thousr.nd dollars.
Violation of the provisions of the
act carries with it a fine of not ex
ceeding $50 for the first offense or a
jail sentence of not more than 30
days. The act, if passed, is to become
operative July 1, 192i.
The engineering bill, on motion -of
Representative Murphy, was referred
to the committee on propositions and
grievances. This bill was reported
unfavorably by the committee Wed
nesday. I
Digest of Happens of Week j Several Hundred Dollars Were
Gleaned From the Files of ! Raised As Result of Unique
Our Exchanges. ! Drive For European Relief.
NEWS FROM EVERYWHERE
The people of Stanly will read with
much concern the following account
of the death of Thomas J. Jerome,
attorney, formerly of this place, wheih
we clip from the Greensboro Daily
News of last Saturday:
"Thomas J. Jerome, Gl years of
age, one of the most prominent mom.
bers of the Guilford Bar Association
died at his home, 21 1 North Ed,"e
worth Street, yesterday a.'tenioon at
2:43 o'clock, following a protracted
illness.
"The funeral services will be con
ducted from the residence this after
noon at 3:30 oV-ock. Rev. J. H.
Barnhardt, D. D., pastor of West Mar
ket Street Methodise cTiurch, assist
ed by Dr. Gilbert T. Rowe, editor of
the North Carolina Christian Advo
cate, and Rev. Robert E, Roe, pas
tor of Holy Trinity Episcopal Church, I
will have charge of the service. In
terment will be made in Green Hill
cemetery. The pallbearers will be
selected from members of the Young
Men's Bible Class, i West Market
Street church, of which he was teach
er for a number of years.
"Mr. Jerome was born October 3,
1859, in Union County, North Caro
lina, the son of the late Captain and
Mrs. E. A. Jerome. He spent his
boyhood days in that county. In 1891
he married Miss Cora Ross, of Albe
marle, and to this union three child
ren were born: Edward C. and Vance
Jerome and Miss Mary Kirk Jerome,
all of this city. In addition to his
widow and children ne is survived by
the following brothers and sisters:
Dr. J. R. Jerome, of Wingate, Union
County; John E. Jerome, Charlotte;
Mrs. John Henry, Ansonville; Mjs.
Ellis May, Wingate; Mrs. Geo. Broom,
Ansonville; and Mrs. Hugh McWhir
ter, Wingate.
In 1883, Mr. Jerome started prac
ticing his profession at Albemarle,
thence in Monroe, Atlanta and Salis
bury. After eight years of success
ful practice in the latter city, he came
to Greensboro, 1915, to make his
home. Shortly after his arrival here
he and J. I. Scales formed the law
partnership of Jerome and Scales.
Owing to decline in health he was
greatily handicapped while practicing
here. For the past five weeks he was
confined to his bed.
Mr. Jerome passed an exceptionally
bright mind. He wrote extensively.
Monroe, Feb. 12. One of the most
interesting actions ever filed in Un
ion county civil court will be called
for trial Wednesday, the 23rd, when
the action known locally as the "Ross
Will Case," will come up. More than
a hundred relatives of the late Mag
gie and Sallie Ross, maiden ladies of
Stndy Ridge Township, are trying t
break the will of these ladies, by
which a thousand acres of fine farm
ing lands and several thousand dollars
in money was bequeathed to three negroes.
TICKETS SOLD FOR $3.00
London, Feb. 10. While British
naval experts have not yet decided
whether or not the submarine has out
classed big $40,000,000 bfittieships ir
war, the controversy, started by Ad
miral Sir Percy Scott, has provided
the country with a laiurh.
Washington, Feb. 13. Senator
Frank B. Willis, of Ohio, President
elect Harding's successor in the Sen
ate, will deliver the principal address
at the opening session of the South
ern Commercial Congress at the Wil
lard Hotel in this city on March 1st
Senator Willis will speak on "To
day's National Problems."
St. Augustine, Fla, Feb. 13. Al
though several decisions remain to be
made in regard to the cabinet selec
tions, President-elect Harding is con
fident the problem will be solved in a
way acceptable to all elements of his
party.
Paris, Feb. 12. Love again is tak
ing a hand in international affairs,
complicating policies and traditions,
by softening the hatred between the
French and Germans in the Rhenish
territory now occupied by thd French
troops under the terms of the Treaty
of Versailles.
A very enjoyable and interesting
occasion during the past week was the
Hoover Banquet given by the Wo
man's Club of Albemarle to the men
of the city last Thursday evening at
the Maralise Hotel. The occasion
was one designed to raise funds for
the benefit of the starving children
of Europe, and quite a large number
of the business and professional men
of the city attended. Of course the
I menu was not elaborate, as the name
"Hoover Banquet" suggests, but nev
ertheless the same was exceedingly
palatable for a hungry man. After
the past, Attorney W. L. Mann, who
acted as toast master, called upon a
number of those present, who made
short but interesting addresses on va
rious subjects. Among those mak.
ing speeches were Messrs. R. L.
Brown, G. D. B. Reynolds, A. C. Hun
eycutt, Rev. R. S. Howie, and Rev.
Q. C. Davis. After these had made
short addresses Mr. Mann called up
on H. L. Horton for a short speech.
Mr. Horton arose and asked that he
be allowed to substitute Mr. Charles
A. Smith. Mr. Smith responded with
a few brief remarks, and closed by'
moving that the price of the tickets
to the banquet be doubled by those
present, and asked all to stand who
were in favor, of this motion. Every
one present promptly stood up.
Several hundred dollars were raised
for the benefit of the starving child
ren of Europe as a result of the ban-
A rising vote of thanks was given
to the members of the Woman's Club,
Miss Mabry and others assisting in
making the occasion such an enjoy
able one.
Chester, S. C, Feb. 13. Associate
Justice George W. Gage, of the South
Carolina Supreme court, died at his
home here at 6 o'clock this evening
after a long illness. Justice Gage is
the second associate justice of the
South Carolina Supreme court to die
in less than one month, Associate Jus
tice Daniel Hydrick saving died Jan
uary 15.
Lumberton, Feb. 13. A Robeson
couple were married twice, in three
He was the author of Jerome's 'days' time. The coup:e ran away and
Criminal Code and Digest of North were married in Dillon County, South
Carolina, of which ffour editions were j Carolina, on Saturday. hen they
published. He was also the author of returned as husband and wife, the
two novels: "Ku Klux Klan No. 40" bride's father insisted that they be
and "The Christ; the Evidence of j remarried, and they were. The sec
His Divinity Reviewed from the stand ' ond marriage was solemnized here on
point of a Lawyer." The latter book j Monday afternoon, the license having
was written since his coming to this : been bought in the usual manner,
city.
"In 1898 Mr. Jerome represented j Washingon, Feb. 12. Congress will
j,. Misfriof rnmnosed of Union. Stan-! be asked to enact special legislation
ly and Anson counties m the state
senate. In 1900 he was a candidate
authorizing the Shipping Board to
employ vessels to haul to China grain
... ..,.,.. i AnnatvA hu American farmers for the
on tne uemicrauc uciwi iur abwurcj j
general. After this he gave up poli- relief of the stafving in that country,
tics jand giving the Navy Department per-
"He was widely known throughout mission to pay he necessary expenses
the state, having appeared in a num- of volunteer naval reserves to form
ber of prominent legal battles. He i crews for the vessel, it was announ-fie-ured
prominently-in the Whitney ced today after a conference between
Secretary Daniels and Chairman Ben
son of the Shipping Board.
receivership at Salisbury ten years
ago.
"Before the Aberdeen and Asheboro ;
railroad was sold to the Norfolk Sou- j Washington. Feb. 10. Gr at Brit
thern he represented it as general i ain made a formal proposal that the
counsel 1 "ilea siaces aiM.-uiu.uiue uu vanai
"Mr. Jerome was an ardent Chris- , ship construction contained in its Dig
tian, and was always in the front : naval program of 191, including ten
rnU of anv christian movement, i giant super-dreadnoughts and six bat-
SVmrtlv aftPr cominz to Greensboro, ! tie cruisers, it was learned from a
- - .
he became an active member of West
Market Street Methodist Church. He
was prominent in North Carolina Ma
sonic circles, being a member of the
local Corinthian commandery. He al
so was a Shriner, a member of Oasis
Temple, Charlotte."
Nr. Jerome is widely known throu
ghout this entire county, where he
continued to practice his profession
regularly up until within a year or
two of his death, although he resid
ed in another county. He was at one
time editor of The Albemarle News.
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high official source.
Kinston, Feb. 13. The Kinston fans
baseball committee have started out
to get the money with "all kinds of
encouragement" from the clubmen of
the city. Business men are pledging
liberally. Thirty-odd members of
the Kiwanis club have pledged to
take stock. They will account for
not less than one-fourth of the capital
needed for a start.
Arthur Pickler, of Pine Hurst,
spent the week end with his family
in East Albemarle.
COTTON EXPORTS.
New York, Feb. 13. Cotton manu
factures exports of the United States
made a record during 1920 and the
United States now supplies nearly 15
per cent of the cotton goods entering
international trade as compared with
about five per cent at the beginning
of the Wolrd War. These facts are
the outstanding features of an analy
sis of the coTWW" manufacturers ex
ports, or the country announced to
day by the National City Bank. It
shows $400,000,000 worth of cotton
manufactures were were sent out of
the United States last year, while
only $51,0000,000 worth were export
ed in the year immediately preceding
the war.
About 850,000,00 yards of cotton
cloths were exported as compared
with 326,000,000 yards in 1914, with
prices averaging 29 cents a yard a?
! about seven cents a yard in 1914. Al-
' .1 1- , 1 . T .1 CI.-.. .1 . .
two-thirds of the world's cotton, th?
country had never been a large ex
porter of cotton goods until the war
conditions cut off the cotton goods
markets of the world from their us
ual source of supplies when thes?
markets naturally turned to the Unit
ed States.
This demand for American cotton
goods comes from everywhere, and in
increasing volume, the analysis stat
es. Argentina took 45,000,000 yaris
compared with 1,500,000 in 1914: Bra
zil took 9,000,000 compared with 100.
000,000 and South America as a while
took 425,000,000 as compared with 5:5 -000,000,
or eight times as much in
quantity, notwithstanding prives av
eraged approximately four times a
much as in 1914. Canada increase !
her takings from 26.000,000 to 7tl.
000,000 years, while Australia is al
so suplying her mother country by
increasing her consumpton of Amer
ican cotton.
International trade in cotton goods
averaged about $1,100,000,000 yearly,
prior to the war, of which the United
Staets supplied about $50,000,000.
Last year the world's trade aggrega
Great Britain, who buys most of her
cotton from the United States, still
leads in world cotton goods trade, her
total exports last year, at par for ster
ling, having been about $1,900,000,
000. American exports totalled $400
000,000; France $275,000,000; Japan
$25,000,000 and Switzerland $150,-000,000.