North Carolina Newspapers

Established 1893. VOL. XXV11. DOLLIED GOBB JELLS University Professor Tells Sum mer Schoo! Students Many Interesting Facts. Friday night in Gerrard Hall the Summer School students heard for the first time since his return from the Orient and from South America an illustrated lecture by Dr. Collier Cobb, who spoke on Japan from within. The illustrations which Dr. Cobb used were beautiful hand- colored ones made from photographs taken by the speaker himself during his sojourn in the land of the cherry blossoms. During his Talk Dr. Cobb said: I was in Tokio alone the first three days'of November during the cere- monies attending, the deification of the Emperor Meiji Tenno. who gran ted to Japan her first constitution in 1889. During this time I met only one foreigner, yet I had no trouble in getting along with very few words of the Japanese language, for high school boys all studied my language and were glad to try their English on me. Every was exceedingly courteous. It only the yellow journals that talking war with America, and the yellow journals in my land talking war with Japan. the own out one was were only were DEVOTED TO THE BEST INTERESTS OF THIS AND ADJOINING .COUNTIES CHAPEL HILL/ ORANGE COUNTY, N. C., THURSDAY, AUGUST 4, 1921. EAST IS EAST AND WEST IS WEST BUT THEY DO MEET AS THIS PIC TURE SHOWS Orange Commissioners Driven From Stand. The Matter Now Looks As If a Fight Was On Ad-. cates Eastern route Chapel Hillsboro win technical. ground. The Board of Commissioners of Or ange County took up as a special or der Monday afternoon the matter of locating the hard surfaced road from Chapel Hill to Hillsboro. The ad- voeates of the eastern route were there in full force, the. Ivocates resting on the idvantage held by them by g Pond technical reason $1,50 A YEAR IN ADVANCE NO 42 Home of Man Who Refuses Title SHWHUSBAND FALL 5.000 FEET TO DEATH 8 In Five Minutes Of Goal When Accident Happended. Mrs. Stone Rescued. Sparey Falls. Alberta. July 30. -Mrs. W. E. Stone, improvised camp on [escribed today how «f her voice, caught .itude of peaks and resting in an Mount Eanon, the shrill sound up by the mul- crags and re- When Dr. Collier Cobb, professoryr ecology at the University of North Carolina, visited Japan last .vic:ter he was twice entertained by Marquis Okuma and here is a pho-tograph of th'' two celebrities taken in his Exc llency’s garden. Dr.Cobb told the summer school students at the University about some of his impressions one night last week. improved agriculture has been intro- Egypt, ye shall serve God upon this duced, trees have been planted over mountain.” Our own sacred books wide areas, and excellent When the American Episcopalians called on their own people for con tributions toward the enlargement of St. Luke’s Hospital in Tsukiji, the Imperial family sent in 50,000 yen. Japan is very heavily taxed, and this same royal family last fall volunteered to pay into the treasu ries of the several prefectures in which they owned proprty a sum of money equal to what their tax would be if they were private citizns. The pote laureate of Japan is a North Carolina girl, Frances Hawks Cameron Burnett, of Raleigh, wife of Col. Charles Burnett, Military Attache of the American Embassy in Tokio. She is the toast of the diplomatic corps and the idol of the Japanese. She won this year’s prize for Japanese poetry over about 20.-, 000 contestants, and it is the second time she has accomplished the feat. She went to Japan in 1911 and start- have been established. schools 'are full of commands and promises The Koreans ■ conneceted with groves and moun- are really in better condtition under tains, our own ten commandments Baron Saito than they have been in , were gi zen to Moses on a mountain many centuries. -top. Japan is colonizing Formosa, Hok-1 Marquis Okuma, the grand old kaido, Saghalien, and Korea. But ■ man of Japan, 84 years old and lead- these are not enough for her surplus >er of the progressive party until 1907 population, and her people are grad- ; vice-minister of the treasury, minis- ually but surely findng their way in-’ter of foreign affairs, minister of ag- to all parts of Asia. They are and intelligent, cent of Japanese tional schools, plentiful. Tokio greatest student world. Ninety-eight children are in Newpsapers is one of centers in Only 14 per cent able, while 74 per of Japan is ed studying the language with husband, then a student officer, has written several poems at her She the able! riculture and commerce, three times per prime minister, founder and sometime Na- .chancellor of Waseda University, are was especially courteous to me. talk- the ed to me about geology and soil nves- tigation, and he had me photograph- the cet of her popu- lation are farmers. Japan cannot feed, her people from her own soil, and her economic and social prob lems are acute. She is turning suc cessfully* to industrialisnty know- special request of the Emperor. We do not call it Japan,” a young pupil of mine at Harvard said to me thirty-five years ago, “but say Dai Nippon, Great Japan, with as much reason and as characteristic modes ty as the English' say Great Britain, and term the sea between England and the continent the English Chan nel, though the people of the conti nent ave another name for it.” That boy, then in his teens, is today pre sident of one of the largest banks in Japan. Me was decorated of distin guished service in the war with Rus sia. He treated his old teacher magnificiently,sent him his carriage for use while he was in Tokio. and gave a banquet in his honor. It is mainly in the matter of posi tion on the globe that Japan is like England. Japan has a coast line of all proportions to its area, and good harbors are to be found nearly every where, but especially in the south ern and western portion of old Ja pan. Herpeople are always at wark to keep her harbors and canals in condition.Nature is So rapid in her processes on the shoreline of Nippon tilting and warping, that the har bors of the east side would not re main long in condition without the constant care that the Japanese ■ give them. The commerce of Japan is chiefly with America. For the past decade her trade with us has equalled that with China and with British India combined, and these stand next in the importance of their commerce with Japan. In 1918, eighty and nine-tenths per cent of the commerc of our own Pacific coast was in Jap anese bottoms. A very large pro- ing that she will have to draw raw materials largely from continent of Asia; and some of greatest men are beginning to alize that the friendship of the iatics may be better than their ritory. portion of the goods sold in our and ten cent stores are made in pan. , The Japanese gave me every of the fact' that their route was on the map and had not been protested in accordance with section 7 of the present state road - law. The Easterners assembled 'with the avowed purpose of driving, the commissioners from the stand they had formerly taken and acquiring a status before the State Highway Commission, to which tribunal they will carry their case in September. The commissioners under the advice and council of their attorney, A. H. Graham, were loath to budge. They finally, however, referred the whole matter. J. S. Hill, withdrawing all previous understandings and agree ments between themselves and him. The board of commissioners at tached a rider to thjeir resolution freeing themselves of their promise to build a sand-clay road on the eastern route, which had previously been thrown as a sop. The resolu tion was evidently designed to split the eastern delegation, the idea be ing that they would not dare dcline the offer of a sand clay road for an ed with him twice. His best friend and staunchest supporter is Hon. M. Momiyama, A. M. iff our University son of a distinguished old knihgt of Japan. Prof. Kitaswa of University, also a Carolina another of his good Waseda man. is friends. Our Mr. Nagano is president of a big her I newspaper syndicate, Mr. Shiki is the I making a good record on a metropoli- her re- As- ter- At a meeting where some univer sity students were discussing war with America an older man arose and said: “Having witnessed the suicide of civilization’ in Europe, we should not be discussing war with America, but should consider how we may cooperate with her for the tan newspaper, and Mr. V. Naito is managing director of North & Rioe limited, a big drug firm in Yokohoma. Our Carolina graduates in Japan have organized the Tar Heel Club of Tokio, and the many courtisies they showed me added greatly to the pleasure of my stay in Japan. JURY LIST FOR SEPTEMBER TERM OF ORANGE COURT. rehabilitation of During the when the wheat the rice planted village turns its gion. Not that the World',” Summer has been out, the thoughts months,, cut and Japanese to reli- the Japanese -ds not always religious, for everythng may be seen the village shrine, and the little yashiro of the for-god ready at hand for worship; but, in Chapel Hill Township: S H Hearne, 0 P Gooch. Robert Cannada, E T Neville. W J Taylor. J L Kirby, J C Poythress, James Rombo, E A Brown, J E Gooch, Bingham Township: M S Lloyd, Rossie Brewer, Lueco Lloyd, T D Lloyd, W T Cates. ummer, the farmer wants to do something of a more special charac ter, just as we have our big August meetings, and then the whole vill age may go on a pilgrimage in search of a revival of religion. When the sacred mountan or the holy grove is near at hand, practi cally everybody can go; but where everybody cannot go, delegates choen each community, its behalf, pilgrimages ear and The are village. The to represent to offer expenses saying that “The knows nothing of There is little Japanee worship bowe by Japanese frog in are the worship in of thee the whole have a the well the great ocean.’ wonder that on Mount There are innumerable pious ciations called ko or koju, members pay a cent or two a the Fuji. whose month, five Ja- as- sistance in my study of their shore line, their geology, and their mines. They showed me the same courtesy in Korea and helped me at many points on the continent of Asia. Up on his inauguration as Governor of Korea, Admirable Baron Saito called together a large body of missionaries and stated to them his determination to introduce extensiev reforms and exert his power for the elevation and satisfaction of the Korean people. Civil instead of military police have been introduced, and new privileges have been extended to the Koreans. Roads and railways have been built. This old colonial home in West Town, Pa., is the home, of Thierry Van Castile • Phillips—“Squire” Phillips, since he recently was elected justice of the peace, member of an old and well-to-do American family, descended from the Polish Grand Duke Sakrovolaski Phillipi Moro, who tied to America gen erations ago. The eldest son of this duke went to England upon the, death of his father, who had accumulated millions in the United States, and as sumed the title of Grand Duke Moro de Mero, to which he was entitled. His last descendant died recently, and' the title, with his fortune, descended to the West Town ’squire. But the ’squire has refused it. He Kept The Farm Some years ago Dr. Frank Crane told a story in one of his editorials about a farmer who had become tired of his farm. He had lived on the place all his life. He was born there When a boy he drove the cows in from the field, gathered apples in the orchard, swaam in the creek, and car ried his books across the meadow and through the woods-pasture to the lit- CARRBORO NEWS Mr. T. M. Booker, Mebane, is visit ing his daughter. Mrs. H D Wil liams. Mr Booker was a citizen of Chapel Hill several years ago and is well known in this section Hills boro and Carrboro played Hillsboro Township: J W Wilson, J J Ward, S E John Shape, Eno Township: Evans Riley, G W Brown, Little River Township: Fletcher Gates, W Ray Oscar F Hopkins. W A Tilly Tilly, Cole, Monk. W L Cedar Grove Township: Arthur Faulkner, J F Wheely, D F Morris, C S Partin, Eugene Murray. J S McAdams, G. S McAd ams, I R Long. Isaac Link. and then when the proper time of year comes round, some are chosen by lot to represent the rest at the shrine of their devotion, all expenses being paid from the common fund. All along the way up, the’ pilgrim rings a little bell to frighten away ants and bugs, and other tiny living things, that he may not take life while going to worship God, and he chants an invocation, which, being interpreted, means, “May our six senses be pure, and may the weather on the honorrable mountain be fair.” And none of these things seems trange to the “western man” who T Cheeks Township: C Farrell,. DEATH OF MRS. McDADE uncertainty in the hard-surfaced line. • On that point, however, they had seriously miscalculated. The eastern delegation presented a solid forma tion and accepted the challenge. They demanded a show at. ths big timing and would’nt talk compromise. The discussion consumed most of the afternoon session and was quite heated at times. Solicitor S.M . Gat tis was in the fore front for the east ern route and was eloquent at times in his advocacy of its cause. The fact of his having refused to allow himself to be employed in the matter gave added force to his words. A good deal of local support from people not directly concerned in either route came to the eastern advocates by reason of the fact that the adop tion of their route would mean the eventual saving to the county of some thing like thirty thousand dollars, not to be sneezed at in the present state of the county finances. They also claim that the adoption of their route will mean the saving to the state of at least one hundred thousand. The advocates of the Frog Pond route from Hillsboro by way of Har vey Clark’s and the Big Meadows to Carrboro and thence to Chapel Hill were somewhat disturbed at the ac tion of the board Monday but seemed to think that nothing could harm them much at this late date. They viewed the resolution, however, with something of alarm and on the whole objected to its passage. In the heat of the discussion, dur ing one of the several recesses taken by the hoard for private conclave with County Attorney Graham, some mem bers of the eastern delegation expres sed the view that his part in the mat ter had not been altogether as impar tial as they had a right to expect from a public officer. It was sug gested that an effort might be made to sever him from one or two of his several offices, he being legislator, county attorney and member of the board of trustees of the university. “OBSERVER.” Mrs. Ann Jeffries McDade, relict of the late J. Alphonso- McDade passed away peacefully at her home in this place Friday at 3:30 after years of affliction.She was in her 79t year. She had been an invalid for years, having been stricken with pa- ■ alybis in 1901, and nine years ago she fell and fractured a hip and had to be nursed since like a child, most I of the time in bed and sometimes in I wheel chair. I Mrs McDade was a model wife, a (devout Christian and a real friend land neighbor, and was held in high '.esteem by all who knew her. The ; floral tokens came from all directions 1 and she was laid to rest Sunday af- I ternoon in the cemetery at Carrooro. TO DISCONTINUE ROAD WORK tie box of a school house down north road As a young man he ploughed harrowed in the spring, made and bound oats in the hauled fodder to the winter To the old home he his bride. There has summer, cattle in the and hay and the had brought children were born that were now grown up and gone. He was 1 sick of the place. He dreamed of some nice, quiet spot where conditions were ideal, where he could pass his declining days in comfort. So he went to a real-estate agent in town and lited his farm for sale. The agent drove out and looked the premises over. He said he thought he would have no difficulty in finding a purchaser as the property seemed to be in fine condition When the farmer got the next week’s issue of his county paper he ball at Hillsboro last Saturday. The score was 13 to to 1 in favor of Carrboro Mrs. Durham, wife.of Mr. Luther Durham, died at her home here Sunday, after a lingering illness. She was 35 years old. The remains were taken to Orange church for in terment. Workmen have commenced clear ing the debris in the fire district preparatory to rebuilding Mr. Wescott Smith and family of Greensboro, are on a visit to Mr W. H Parker, Mrs. Smith’s brother Mr. J. E/Neal had visitors Sunday from Lee, Chatham and Alamance counties. Also Mrs. L. R. Neal, of Spray spent a day recently. Mrs Ralph Ferrall of Brown’s Chapel setion, Chatham county, and husband, spent Tuesday with Mrs. L. R. Sturdivant. Mr E P Ellington, of the Carrboro Cash Store, and his daughters, Mis ¬ 'choing, saved her life after her hus- iand, President of Purdue Universi- .y, of LaFayete. Ind., had perished n climbing the mountain and after ;he had lain eight days on a peril- ms ledge. A searching party had figured out ■ he probable course that Dr. and Mrs. Stone would take in the attempt to ascend Mount Earion. From, a point of vantage the searchers had scoured every side with their glas ses without a sight Of anything. Then as they decided to go on, one mem ber of the party thought he heard the cry of a woman afar. Listen ing intently, the searchers heard it again. A more minute inspection with their glasses revealed far below and across the canyon the form of a woman. One hour later Mrs. Stone was rescued. Cried For Help At different periods she had raised heY voice wth all the vigor she had expecting that some time it might be heard and she would be rescued. Dr. Stone was climb of the top scaled mountain, and his wife had death occurred. within five minutes of the hitherto un- the goal which he set. when his own read the ment. It farm of was for real-estate agent’s advertise stated that the Perkins one hundred sisty-acres sale. It was all fertile. A Ses Leia and Ada, have gone it relatives in Indianapolis, Mr. Jack Norwood and Sturdivant, of Mt. Pleasant to vis- Ind. Robt. section. crop failure had never been known. There were forty acres of excellent were Carrboro visitors Tuesday. Mrs. Robt. Evans, who was taken to Watts hospital several days ago in a critical condition, at last ac counts, was not improving much. The accident happened on July 16. Mr. and Mrs. Stone expected to make the climb, rest at the top, and then get back to the food cache that night. Without Warning Dr. Stone was climbing above, hopefully, cheerfully - and unhesi tatingly when without a word of .warning, a farewell of any kind, not even a sign, he plunged over hier head to the abyss below. He fell fully 5,000 feet in the opinion of his wife. She saw the body strike a rock, bound from it from cliff to cliff and oh.down the side of the mountain. She began a hasty descent in an ef fort to get to her husband. She fought her way down the side of the mountain, and when found was 3,- 000 feet below the point where Dr. Stone had fallen. How Mrs. Stone became maroon ed on a ledge of rock she does not know herself. Miss Annie McDonald, who was timeber, a good artesian well, plenty the nurse with Mrs. McDade, will go of pasture land, and a charming; dwelling-house, with adequate barns, bins, and sheds. The place was well stocked with cattle, horses, pigs and poultry. It was of easy access to the I wish to announce to the people of the county that for the present at least,! will be forced to’ discontinue all road work in the county, evcept that done by the county forces. to Durham to follow her profession. BROUGHT TO OLD HOME FOR BURIAL The remains of Mr Winston Par- city, and had telephone and rural Uin, who died last Saturday at his free delivery advantage. Anyone^home in Lillington, where he was looking for an ideal farm would do ■ Telegraph operator, were brought well to consult the agent at once. here Monday for burial. Mr. Partin The next day the farmer called at’ was born and reared in Chapel Hill, the agent’s office and said. “say, I , was the son of the late Thomas Par- I read your advertisement of my'tin. He was about 40 years of age. place in the paper, and as near as I He is survived by two sisters and can figure that’s exactly the kind of one brother. Mrs, Maggie Cates,of farm I’ve been looking for. I’ll keep Burlington, Mrs. Alice Lane of Way it myself.” cross, Ga., and Mr. Mm. Partin, of That’s the way Dr. Crane tells the Durham. story. How much happier all of us m*^*^. -.«■-—-~—«^^ would be if some clever advertising agent could write up our jobs, our homes, and our business, so that we could see them as others see thorn- FIRE AT HILLSBORO • The town of Hillsboro was visited by another fire last Saturday morn ing about 10 o’clock, the home of Miss Rebecca Cameron, with all her furniture, was eompltely destroyed. The fire was caused by the explosion of an oil stove, and the flames spread so rapidly that nothing trunks could be taken house. A- large crowd within a few minutes but but two from the gathered the flames beneath these beautiful flowers, sister,Mrs. Martha J. Emerson, vives her. She was the aunt of Isaac Emerson, of Baltimore,. One sur- Col. who has read in his Bible that. “Abra-| ham planted a grove in Beersheba,; and called there on the name o the' Lord, the everiating God” or where i provided her the best t God promied Moses, “When thou , hast brought forth the people out of tto "8 h a » the y ears ° f her afflic- don. will be necessary for these forces to concentrate upon the most impor tant roadds in order to get them in shape for the winter. There is not enough money available, to justify the maintainance of the county for ce and permit of individual work at the same time, as has been the cus tom in the past. I regret that this change is necessary, but feel that greater results can be obtained with the limited amount of funds avail able, by working it all out with the county force and equipment. This announcement is made after consultation with the Board of Com missioners and with their advice. C. P. WHITFIELD, Road Supt. Orange County. had made such headway that nothing could be done. The loss is only par tially covered by insurance. Miss Cameron has many years been president of the local chapter of Daughters of the Confederacy had accumulated many valuable the the and his- torical records pertaining to the Con- ederacy. all of which have been de- 1 stroyed. Considerable excitement was caus ed when George Carden,night watch man at the Bellevue mills, was hit in the back by the explosion of a shell in the building. Medical aid was immediately gotten and it was. found that the injury is not serious. It seems there were several shot 1 gun shells in the house, and the ex-■ plosion of one of these resulted in the injury to Mr. Carden. MISS BERRY ON SPEAKING TOUR In continuance of the work of the Good Roads Association in assisting counties with their road program, the Secretary, Miss H. M. Berry, left Chapel Hill August las for a four- day speaking trip through Avery County. Arriving at Linville Falls late Tuesday afternoon, she will ad dress a gathering there in the even ing. On Wednesday she went to Al tamont for a morning meeting, to Crossnore for the afternoon, and to Linville for the evening. Thursday the 4th she had engagements at New land. Elk Park and Banners Elk; and on Friday she plans to go down Toe iver to meet similar engagements at Minneaolis, Plumtree. Spruce, etc., returnng to Chapel Hill at the end of the week. WILLTELL If YOUR blood tells a tale of depletion and run-down condition, MAKE it tell a tale of health and the joy of life; by the use of Dr. Thacher’s Liver and Blood Syrup; which purifies and vitalizes the Blood, regulates the Liver, keeps the Bowels open and tones up the whole system. Sold by your druggist. Mrs. Tennie Parkef, ofSan- teetlah, N. C., says: “I was sick 13 years. Had numb spells; my feet and hands cold, pain in my left side*; not able to do any thing. I tried several doc tors. 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