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"THE UNION COUNTY PAPER-EVERYEODY NEEDS FT "THE UNION COUNTY PAPER-EYERYBODY READS IT he Monroe Jou at PUBLISHED TWICE EACH WEEK TUESDAY AND FRIDAY VOL.25. No. 43. MONROE, N. O, FRIDAY, JULY 4, 1919. $1.50 PER YEACASH. RNitL 1 . , .': OFFICERS SEIZE BIG STILL AM) A QUANTITY OF WHISKEY About 84M) Gallons of Beer INmred (hit Clamn W. Fowler Arrested ami Itelea-sed Under Bond Will Be Tiled Next Tuesday. In a raid about 2 o'clock Wednes day morning Deputies C. Fowler and Paul Griffith and two revenue officers seized a large capacity still, between ten and fifteen gallons of whiskey, and poured out about 800 gallons of beer. The contraband was found on Clarence W. Fowler's place, four miles north of Monroe. Fowler was arrested and brought to Monroe where he gave bond in the sum of $800 for his appearance for trial next Tuesday. The still, a seventy-gallon capacity one, was found in a tenant house on Fowler's farm. It was so arranged that the fireplace in the house would serve as the furnace. Following a "run" the slops were disposed of through a hole cut In the floor. Re ceptacles for measuring were also dis covered here, and it was here that the beer was found. The officers poured out eleven 60 gallon barrels contain ing the stuff, ono 200 gallon hogs head and a number of kegs. Concluding their work at the ten ant house the officers Journeyed to Fowler s home where they aroused him and enquired how tunc IT whiskey he had. "You had as well lead us to it or we will -be forced to search your premises." he was told. He then ad mitted that he had some whiskey and escorted the officers to the smoke house where he showad them a keg containing a quantity of the prohibit ed estimated at between 10 and 15 gallons. When the officers arrived in Monroe from their raid the whis key was left at the jail while the still was brought to the courthouse and added to the collection there. Clarence Fowler, who was placed under arrest and will be tried next Tuesday, is a well-to-do farmer and owns considerable land. He has borne a good reputation. Cunteeti Work Must Continue. The fact that there Is a necessity for the continuation of Red Cross Canteen service is shown very plain ly in a few figures taken from the May report of the Southern Division. During this month 86.947 soldiers, 2,743 sailors and 1,942 marines were served by the canteens in this division in addition to 7,942 wounded men, 2.715 sick men and 660 aviators. The Government ruling that men return ed from overseas shall be discharged only at the point from which they en 'isted or were drafted makes it nec essary for discharged men often to lake long journeys in order to reach their homes, and so long as there is this tonstant movement either of the troops or discharged men there will be equally constant need of lied Cross canteen service. A particular Instance of this Is shown in a letter recently received by the director of the the canteen ser vice at Washington Headquarters from Captaiu William F. Enneklng of the 328th Infantry, 82nd Division, In there are many Atlanta boys. Cap tain Enneklng wrote to thank the Red Cross for the canteen Bervlce extend ed his men ou their way from Camp Mills, L. I., to Camp Cordon, Ca.. where they were coining for demobi lization, and he enumerates the points along the way at which hospitality was offered by the Red Cross New .York, Philadelphia, Washington, Ral eigh, Hamlet and Monroe, N. C, and Abbeville, S. C, the last four being in the Southern division. The ser vice provided by these canteens con sisted of supervising the distribution of 2,939 pieces of baggage, furnish ing stamps and post cards, writing letters, sending telegrams, distribu ting medical supplies, placing escorts on troop trains, preparing welcome homes for members of the 82nd and furnishing the usual canteen refresh ments of coffee, fruit, bread, sand wiches, cold drinks, chocolate, Ice cream and similar things. There la also a special canteen service at Camp Gordon for the men who have arriv ed at that point pending demobiliza tion. Publicity Chairman. Information Wanted. The Red Cross wants information at once about the following persons: Anderson Threatt, Monroe, N. C, Box 52. Lizzie Threatt, Monroe, N. C, Box 52. Benlah Starnes, Monroe, N. C. Margaret M. Ledbetter, Monroe, N. C. Mildred Love Cheek, Monroe, N. C, Route 5. Dora Lane Davis, Monroe, N. C. Birdie Covington, Monroe, N. C. Jane Martin, Marshville, N. C, Route 6. John Martin. Marshville, N. C. Route 6. Leary'Payton Griffin, Unlonvllle, N. C. Viola Connell, Unlonvllle, N. C, Route 2, Box 74. The Bureau of War Risk Insurance is holding an allowance check for each of the above named persons which It has been unable to deliver on account of not being able to locate the person to whom it is made pay able. I have been called up to locate the above named persons. I will there fore, appreciate any Information that will help to locate them and thus en able them to get their checks. T. L. Riddle. Chairman Home Service Section, Mouroe Chapter American Red Cross. Plans Fur Handling Cotton Crop. New Orleans. July 2. Plans for a systematic campaign in the cottou belt for organising counties of the states for handling the annual crop were launched here today at the sec ond meeting of the present confer ence of directors of the American Cot ton association. J. S. Waunamaker. of Columbia. S. C. president said that 1400.000.000 would be needed for forming the planned operation to properly dispose of one fourth of the crop. This corporation, according to President Wanuamaker, will not con flict with the proposed 1100.000.000 cotton export financing corporation, as the former will limit its work to cotton for domestic use. The plans for organising.' adopted at today's session, include the form ing of county and parish organiza tions In every cotton growing state and a resolution was adopted request ing commissioner's of agriculture and presidents of farmers' union to issue joint' calls or the first meetings.. Telegrams are Detng sent to gov ernors of cotton growing states and presidents of organizations interested requesting that state meetings be called in July. President Wannamaker announced that a bureau of statistics was under organization so that complete and accurate figures could be supplied. He took exception of the United States department of agriculture report of yesterday which he said showed eight per cent cotton reduction when the estimate should have been 25 per cent. Quaint Pence Ceremony in l,oiidon London, July 2. With quaint cere mony suggestive of medieval times, the king's proclamation that peace had been signed will be read today at five points in Londori St. James palace, Trafalgar Square, Temple Bar, Cheapslde and the Royal Excange. The ceremony will begin at St. James palace, where Sir Henry Farn ham Burke, Carter King of Arms, ac companied by a number of state offi cers garbed in tabards, will read the proclamation after six state t ruin pet ers have sounded their call. A pro cession will then form, headed by an escort of life guards, trumpeters and numerous heralds. Officials In state robes riding in carriages or on horseback, will move through the city to the points where different heralds will read the pro clamation. A temporary barrier will be erected at Temple Bar to mark the' city's Conines and a herald will demand admission to the city lu the ancient form, from the lord major and the corporation, waiting in robes at the barrier. The mayor and corporation will join the procession on its way to Cheapslde and the Royal Exchange. . Major Chester ApMinted to Staff of State Hoard of Health. The State Board of Health an nounces that Major P. Jt Chester has been appointed a member of th staff of the Bureau of County Health Work and that he will be assigned as director of the Pitt county health de partment on July 1. Major Chester was educated at. Davidson College and studied medicine in New York City. Prior to the war he was a member of the staff of the Charlotte Sanatorium and W33 Interested In medicine and sanitary work In that city. He en tered tha army at the outbreak or the war and for two years was chief or the surgical and sanitasy staff of Base Hospital Unit number 5. Dr. Chester is well qualified for public health work and the State Board of Health looks forward to successful work In Pitt county under his direc tion. Experts in Their Line. News and Observer. Willard Is to get $100,000 for his one exhibition at Toledo July 4. The tickets and concessions are expected to bring at least a million. No two men in the world ever before pried out of willing patrons so much money in so short a time. Think of paying $60 about a dollar a minute, to see two men pound each other. A Chau tauqua entertainment will come to town and the committee in charge will have to canvass the town for a week to raise a guarantee as big as Willard will earn In thirty seconds. Evidently it is worth while to be able to do a thing well. Americans Being Moved from Rhine land. The American army of occupation technically ceased to exist Wednesday when the removal of the units still In the Rhlneland began. It is expect ed that within a comparatively short time there will remain on the Rhine only one regiment, with certain auxil iary troops, totalling approximately 5,000 men says a press dispatch. The Fourth and Fifth divisions, entraining for Brest today, will be followed eventually by the Second, Third and First divisions, In the ord er named. The exact time of departure of these latter divisions depends on the manner in which Germany carries out the military terms of the treaty. . The O. Henry, Greensboro's finest hostelry and one of the State's most palatial hotels, was formally opened to the public Wednesday evening. Mrs. William Sydney Porter, wife of America's greatest short story writer, was honor guest at an elaborate ban quet. Other distinguished guests present were Dr. C. Alphonso Smith, O. Henry's biographer and close friend, Dr. Archibald Henderson, Dr. Howard Rondthaler, and Don Seltz, manager of the New York World who discovered O. Henry's writing ability. ORIGIN OF O. HENRY'S PEN NAME I I I)r. C. Alplionso Smith Say YounR Sydney lortrr First Saw It Pharmaceutical Ietn and Was Attracted By It. The Greensboro Daily News in the O. Henry edition commemorating the opening of the hotel In that city erect ed in memory of North Carolina's fa mous short story writer, quotes the following written by Dr. C. Alphonso Smith. O. Henry's biographer: The origin of William Sydney Por ter's pen-name, O. Henry, has not hitherto been established. He is re ported to have sajd that he found It among the names oftthose listed in the Times-Democrat or the Picayune of New Orleans as attending some of the Mardl Gras functions. This Is Im probable, Inasmuch as he did not be gin .to write stories from New Or leans, but from Columbus. Ohio, and it was in the latter place that he first used the now famous pseudonym. When asked once w hat the "O." stood for, he laughed and said, "Oliver," a few of his stories being signed Oliver Henry. I have always thought it pos sible that some clue to the name might be found, but I doubted wheth er, if the clue were reported from a book, the book would be one that O. Henry was known to have used and used frequently enough to Impress the name. All vestige of doubt has, however, been removed from my own mind by the following letter which came to me some time ago from Dr. Paul B. Barringer. a former chairman of the faculty of the University of Virginia, and later president of V. P. I. "At various times in my life," Dr. Barringer writes, from Charlottes ville, Va., under. date or March 17th, 1918. "I have run upon chemical an alyses made by a continental chemist who signed himself 'O. Henry.' While the substances under analysis were adapted to use in the materia medica, I had no idea until yesterday that the man was a pharmacist. In looking up the preparation of hydrocyanic acid in the United States Dispensa tory, found in the hands of every drug clerk In the United States. ' I found (pages 64 and 398) O. Henry twice referred .to, In short search. Seemingly he was of Antwerp, as he wrote a good deal for the Journal de Pharm. d'Anvers, and also Paris pharmaceutical papers. In fact, 1 find his trail from 1833 to 1857, and he touched many of the lines a south ern drug clerk would be Interested in, quinine., cinchonine, etc. Can it be possible that this short, crisp, unusu al name, that hits the eye from the page, ever caught the eye of the young drug clerk, Sydney Porter, and stuck? O. Henry. It looks like a voc ative. The edition of the U. S. D. that I used In looking this up was the 17th of 1894, but the dates show that pharmacist O.Henry has been in these editions from quite early." Turning to the 14th edition of the United States Dispensatory (Wood and Bache, 1877.) which O. Henry used when he was a dm clerk in his uncles store in Greensboro, N. C. I find frequent references to "O. Henry" (see pages 308, 376, 1424, etc.). 'JHenry. Jr." "Henry, Sr.." ana "Henry." The later editions of the Dispensatory which the great short story writer used in Austin, Tex., and in Columbus, O., contain the same references to the famous French fam ily, and thus convert a surmise of or igin into a practical certainty. When It is remembered that Will Porter had from early boyhood an unerring feeling for odd and arrestive names as well as faces and that he was fill ing prescriptions from the United States. Dispensatory when he first signed the name O. Henry to a short story, the evidence becomes, it seems to me, practically coercive that here and here alone the pen name took Its origin. The man whose name has' been thus strangely popularized was one of the most distinguished French chemists of the 19th century. Etienne Ossian Henry, curtly abbreviated in to O. Henry in the Dispensatory, was born in Paris in 1798 (not as La rousse has it, in 1793) and died there in 1893. Son of a distinguished father, Noel-Etlenne Henry, 1769 1832), and father of a distinguished son. Einmauuel-Osslan Henry (1826 1867), he has inscribed his name in delibly as analyist, discoverer, and benefactor upon the pages of his country's scientific annals. Am I mistaken In thinking that the French people will be interested in this link between our O. Henry and their Etlenne-Osstan HenryT I am not mistaken, I know, in the thought that all Americans will be glad to group with the associations that al ready cluster about the name of O. Henry the added memory of the great nation whose innate nobleness has already enshrined it in the hearts of all free peoples and with whose sons our own sons stood shoulder to shoulder in the victorious battle for liberty, equality, and fraternity. Tobacco In Anson The Ansonlan. The Ansonlan learns that the to bacco crop in Ansonvllle township is growing nicely and promises a tine yield this year. Mr. McBride and Mr; Black, twd former citizens of Yadkin county have Introduced the tobacco business In that section. Mr. McBride has about 8 acres and Mr. Black about 5 acres. Mr. Stanley Ponds with three acres are also expecting good crops. The people of this com munity have two barns and will build three more this summer to take care of their crops. They are expecting aDout 4a cents per ponnd and at this price tobacco yields about twica as much per acre as cotton. ITALIAN CITY DESTROYED, Earthquake on Sunday Left the To ,. Itesenihliiig One Bombarded by Ar- tillery American Y-M.C.A. Truck Hearing Supplies Wan Almost Moh. I Borgo San Lorenzo. Italy Julv 2 By the Associated Press. This city, ' wreck ea by earthquake Sundav. re- sembles a town in devastated districrs of France after an artillery bombard-1 men. itie cathedral Is in ruins,' hundreds of homes and shops have been .shaken down. Some of these, still habitable after the major shock, rell down during later earth tremors. Many people are living in tents. Military authorities have been un able to induce the bakers and the shopkeepers to return to their places of business because of the unsafe con dition of the buildings. In the bake shops many of the ovens were crack ed by the earthquake. Hardly a house was uuuamasea. i nere appears to to be little acute suffering, but there is a great demand for clothing and food which are in charge of the mil itary authorities. The local administration and busi ness are disorganized and the Inhab itants are giving free rein to the mili tary authorities, who are distributing relief. The first supply truck reached here Monday morning in charge of an American Y. M. C. A. staff under Harry Hobert, of Tucson. Ariz. He told the Associated Press correspond ent that when he arrived he was lit erally mobbed by the hungry people. He said the scramble for food was such that members of the Y. M. C. A. force mounted a wall and tossed the food K the people because they could not hold them back on the ground. "We offered our help to the Italian command at Florence." said Hobert, "who accepted It. We then loaded our trucks with all the goods In our Florence canteen and started out be hind a truck load of doctors. Al though not the first truck to arrive, ours was the first with supplies. We have maintained a regular service rrom Florence since Monday morn ing." Gets Off Lightly. Atlanta Constitution. Germany gags at its medicine but it will take the dose. "Let us sign." said Premier Bauer. "but it Is our hope to the last breath' that this attempt against our honor may one day. recoil against its authors!" and the president of the assembly, recommending the accept ance of the peace terms, commended "the unhapry fatherland to a merci ful God." Notwithstanding the wailing and anguish that is coming out of Ger many, in protest against the alleged harshness of the peace terms, the truth Is Germany has reaped far bet ter than It sowed. Measured by its own ideals and by the standard of what it would have Imposed upon its enemies had it won the war. the terms imposed by the allied and associated powers are mild indeed! Considering what the peace terms would have been had Germany been the conquerer Instead of the conquer ed in this war, it has gotten off amaz ingly light! Its masters threw the nation against the civilized world, virtually seeking to establish Its hebomony over all mankind. That was Ger many's aim and purpose. That is what the German emperor had in view, when, upon the assassi nation of the Austrian crown prince at Sarajevo, he exclaimed: "The hour haa struck! We shall now see what our army means!" The situation was precarious dur ing the first three years of the war, for the world was standing against a wop nutchlna the llba nf which civili zation had never seen, the upbuilding of which had been going on for for ty years. If the Germans had won, the peace terms they would have exacted would have been far more drastic than those now offered them. Their own official records prove .this. Germany has fared surprisingly well In the terms of the peace treaty; and instead of bewailing the fact that they must consign themselves to the mercies of God, they should be thanking God that they got off so lightly. Promised Dance Italic for Palelgh. 1. All dances to have chaperones from Women's Club. A ..I A . . 1 J . . . ! ' " u . , .pl ,1 v.. Fair ,1e$ t0 cl0!e ll midPlht- 3. Ail nances 10 nave nuur iiiaua- ager chosen by hall owners. (Chaperones and floor managers to co-operato In removing ob lection able features. Including drinking. Parents Invited to attend dances.) The strike of telegraphers which began at noon June 11 was called off Wednesday by S. J. Konenkamp. the president of the commercial teleg raphers union of America. In a statement issued to the members he said that the strike was not proposed as an endurance test, but merely a protest against unfair and unjust treatment received since August 1918 at the hands of the wire administra tion. The body of George Funderburk. who was drowned In the Catawba river near Belmont last Sunday after noon, was recovered this mondng at Rock Island, five or six miles pIow the scene of the trauMy. The body was found hv a nnrty of searchers -hn Mve been dragging the river since Sunday In an effort to recover the body. lr. Anna H. Shaw Dead. Philadelphia. July 2. Dr. Anna Howard Shaw, honorable president of the National American Woman's Suf frage association, died at her home in Ji?y,an' f" n!?r hm'm ' 7 0C,o5 k this evening. She was 71 years old. Dr. Shaw also was chairman of the woman's committee of the council of national denfense and recently was awaraea tne atstingutshed service medal for her work during the war. Sne "s taken ill in Springfield. aoout a montn ago while on a lecture tour with former President Tart and President Lowell, of Har vard university, in the Interest of the league of nations. Pneumonia de veloped and for two weeks she was confined to her room in a Springfield hospital. She returned to her home about the middle of June and appar ently had entirely recovered. Last Saturday she drove to Philadelphia in her automobile and upon her re turn said she was feeling "fine." She was taken suddenly ill again yester day with a recurrence of the disease and grew rapidly worse until the end. Her secretary. Miss Lucy E. An thony, a niece of Susan B. Anthony. who has been with Dr. Shaw for 30 vears, and two nieces, the Misses Lula and Grace Greene, were at her bedside when she died. WAXHAW NEWS ITEMS. Mr. Tom Conn Exhibits Pair Snake Legs That Came Off a Spread ing Adder Mr. J. It. Eukoii has Sold $ I .it ..10 Worth of Cabbage From His Patch. The Enterprise. Note was made several weeks ago of the stock company organized among the farmers of this communi ty for buying and operating the Niven, Price & Company gin stand. A charter was granted the Fanners' Ginning and Planting Company. Inc., Friday and organization was effected at the first regular stockholders' meeting at the Enterprise office Sat urday afternoon. The following di rectors were elected: T. M. Havwood, W. N. Davis. R. W. Billue, A. B. Nor wood and J. B. McNeely. These di rectors then met and elected the fol lowing officers: T. M. Haywood, pres ident; W. N. Davis, vice-president; and G. L. Nisbet secretary. The mat ter or electing a treasurer and gen eral manager was left open until the next meeting of the board. The mon ey was paid over and the deed accept ed Saturday and as soon as the gen eral manager is elected preparations will be made for ginning and buying cotton Beed this fall. It Is proposed not to limit the business of the com pany to this, but to engage In general trading in things necessary for oper ating a farm. Mr. Tom Coan was In tow Friday with a pair of snake legs. He de clares that they came off a spreading adder snake killed by one of his boys a day or two before. The "legs" were about half an Inch long and had sharp pointed claws.- He says they grew about seven Inches from the snake's tail. We suppose that there is no connection between this incident and the Great Drouth which started yesterday. But when as good a churchman as Tom Coan vouches for shake legs, and a good woman of Goose Creek reports finding a seven inch snake in a hen egg, it looks well, suspicious.. The chaingang has done some good work on the Monroe road from Mr. Frank Howey's place to Monroe but the road from there to Waxhaw ts terribly rough. Cut up during the rainy weather, it has now dried and sunbaked before being smoothed and ts a series of bumps. The convict force will drag It all the way to Wax haw some time this week or next. Mr. J. R. Eason had about the most profitable crop this year that we ,naTe heard of- He planted a quarter of an acre In cabbages and has sold rrom the patch to date f 131.50 worth of them. He estimates that $26 will cover his entire expense of preparing, planting, rental and marketing the crop. Mr. and Mrs. Carl Wolfe returned home Friday night from Wrlghts vllle where they attended the State pharmaceutical association. They were stopping at the Seashore Hotel and lost all of their baggage and clothing except what they had on at the time. The Are occurred about half past ten Thursday night and Mr. and Mrs. Wolfe, with mc3t or the other guests, were at the Lumina or other amuse ment places about the beach. A good J lanv wmn ha left their children 1at the hotel and When the fire alarm was given they became hysterical. No one was hurt but by the time the crowd got back down to the hotel the fire was too far along for them to save anything from their room. Among the things lost by Mr. and Mrs. Wolfe were two good suitcases, a handbag, a kodak, about twenty dollars In money and wearing appa rel. Kindergarten Honor Roll June, 1019. Margaret Laney. Percy Laney. Out'of thirteen enrolled only thes two had perfect attendance. The fol lowing were absent one day, but de serve mention: Sarah Horton. Walter Henderson, Jr., Perry Helm, Margaret Love, Sam Hudson, Jr., Frances Adams. -Mrs. R. W. Lemmond. Teacher. St. Paul's Episcopal Church. Third Sunday after Trinity. July 6 Sunday school at 10:30; Holy Communion and sermon at 11:30; Men's Bible class at 4:30; Evening prayer and sermon at 8:30. KITCHIN ENTERS ANIMATED DEBATE AT A BALL tiAME. Washington Nea)en iet I'p New Yarn on the North Carolina Con gressman, Who Is So Fond of the National SMtrt Likewise Argu ment. Congressman's Claud Kltchin's love of a debate is shown by the fol lowing story sent by a Washington correspondent to the News and Ob server: The zeal of Representative Claude Kitchln for a spirited debate is prov erbial among his colleagues in Con gress. His recent onslaught in tear ing the veil from the so-termed Re publican economy and the party's boasted facility for running the ma chinery of government has revived a story about the North Carolina Con gressman whereiu he becomes so en veloped In a debate at a ball game In Washington that he lost sight of the contest and when the game was fin ished he had to inquire at a cigar store to ascertain the score of the game which he had Just witnessed. Here Is the story as related in Wash ington and given credence in news paper circles: "One of the most rabib baseball fans in Washington is Claude Kitch ln, former Democratic leader of the House. As a high private in the rear ranks. Clamp Clark having succeeded him, Kitchln now has more time than formerly to enjoy the national pas time. Hence, whenever the Washing ton team is home and Kitchin has no pressing duti-n on hand he goes to the ball gam-'. "Intensely r.s he Is interested in the game, however, even its attrac tions are not, sufficient to keep him out of political arguments, even when he Is seated in the grandstand. "This was proved recently when Kitchin, in the fifth inning or a warm game, with Walter Johnson and an other far-famed pitcher opposing each other, became engaged In a heated controversy as to whether the Denio crafs had placed too low a rate on canary bird seed, or something like that. It got to be such an arm swing ing debate that Kitchin and his friends lost all track of the game and, when the argument ended, both men looked up to find the players gone, the granstand deserted and the park Janitor busily engaged In herding up the peanut shells. Kitchln and his J friend thereupon went hot to a cigar siore ana assea me score or the game they had paid to see." . "Cheek to Cheek and Shiver." Gastonia Gazette. Verily, 'tis no wonder that such a furore is being kicked up in Ashe vllle, Raleigh and some other North Carolina cities over the ne dances, Judging from ihe general tcni End tenor or the following dispatch from New York descriptive of the devil tries of the ;lincs: "A new danei U supplanting tho shimmy. It is known as the Jelatlne Jazz. It Is as wobbly as a jar of telly and Just as sensible. A great many believe the suggestive new dai'ces wilt eventually kill the dance craze. Each week the dances are gettln? worse. In the syncopated halls they Just stand cheek to cheek and shiver. No Barbary Coast honky-tonk ever touched the shimmy and Jelatlne Jazz for vulgarity. Maurice and Wal ton In the new "Follies" are dotug their best to save th$ modern dance. Just back from Europe they have re fused to shimmy. Instead they do a graceful ballroom dance to classic music." No wonder the policemen had to hi? called in as chaperones. It has remained for the young peo ple of Raleigh to go about the solu tion of the mattsr in the senslMe way. The girls of that city knowing that they themselves are responsible for the particular brand of performances perpetrated at the dances and feeling hurt over the criticisms of the dances in the city got together at a meeting recently. "We'll make the dances of Raleigh so clean that no word of criticism will be possible against them and we'll ask the boys of Raleigh to help us." At this meeting there were present Mrs. Bickett. Mts. Clarence Johnson, Dr. Delia Dixon-Carroll and other prominent women of Raleigh. They assured the girls that the criticisms were State-wide and urged them to set the standard for dancing in North Carolina. The boys who were equal ly concerned over the fate of decetit dances were also consulted. A - result of these Joint confer ences between girls, boys and mothers It Is very evident that the objection able dancing can be cut out and the safe and sane enjoyed. These Raleigh folks went at It 1" the right way. and If the mothers In other Carolina cit ies would only exercise hair the care and oversight over their girls thev expend over their clubs and card games there v ould be less trouble at the dances. Of course the boy will dance whatever the lrls will permit and will go as far as the girls will allow. A little boy of five was traveling south with his parents to visit an aunt whom he had never seen Ha was very curious about this relative and asked his father and mother end less questions concerning her. As the Journey drew to its close the little fellow was amazed to see many negroes at every station. Sud denly a look nf cnnaternntlr.n .tnwnot on his face and turning to his mother :he cried in a voice of alarm, "Mam .ma. mamma, what color is Aunt Jen?" J
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