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ESTABLISHED 18 SO MOUNT AIRY, NOItTH CAROLINA. THURSDAY. JANUARY 25. 1928 |1.M PER YSAR Of ADVAMB
STATE AGAIN OWNS
CALEDONIA FARM
Will Rmwm Um Farmfef Op
•ratio** mm 3,000-Acr*
Trad Tklo Spring
Raleigh. Jan. 80.—Farming oper
ation* on a 6.000-acre scale will ba
raaumed at the Old Caledonia Farm
by th« Statu Priaon this yesr aa •
notation of the problem of what to
4o with (,100 acrea of land rs-ac
quired Thursday under foreclosure
sale whan inirrSaam of tho land
srere unable to meet payment* due
and past doe, segregating $242,000.
The land wa» bought In by Superin
tendent George Ro«» Poo for $167,
noo.
Two blork* of land bought at the
•ale held In December. 1010, ona
tract of 1.600 acre* bought by A. H.
Jewell and aaaoriatea for 11.19,000,
another of 1,400 bought by C. W.
Gregory and R. 8. Travia for $106,
000, were bought back by Mr. Pou
at the tale held on the premise*.
Title to the property ha* not yet been
transferred bark to the State, pend
ing confirmation of the Bale by the
rourts.
Plan* for cultivating the land. mo*t
of which haa lain idle *ince 1019, call
for planting 1,000 acre* of cotton,
1,000 acre* of com, 600 acre* of pea*,
and 600 acre* of food cropa thia year.
Mr. Poo will ask for an emergency
appropriation of approximately $60,
000 to restore the land to cultivation,
purchase stock and implement* and
provide modern quarters for the con
vict force that will he sent there.
Re-opening of the Halifax farm
wilt m nowise alTect the status of the
Method Farm, four miles we*t of Ral
eigh, Mr. Pou said yesterday. Ade
quate forces of workment are avail
able by the unusual growth of the
prison population during the past two
years. In November, 1920, the prison
population na 7M and on Jinttry 1.
IKS. tho population waa 1,127. It la
probable that Captain Rhem will bo
returned to Caledonia to superintend
the farm there.
With the exception of tha money
required now for rehabilitation of
Caledonia tho State itaiwii winner In
the transaction hy tho value of tho
JOOfl acres of land owned at Method.
Sufficient rmh waa paid at the Hale of
the farm to pay outright for the land
now owned hy the prison In Wake
county, and it regains possession of
the Halifax farm* for nothing under
the foreclosure sale with the 1919
pnrchnser* still liable for 175.000.
plus interest on a quarter of a mil
Ion for three years.
C. M. Sawyer Musi Smrrm
Eight Years For Burning Store
Winston-Salem, Jan. 20.- Eight
years In the states prison it bard la
bor was the sentence i/npored upon
H. M. Sawyer. local harness merchant,
ronvlcted of being implicated in the
burning of hia -tore, by Judge TJ.
Khnw in the Superior <<»urt today.
William Chatmon, IC-ycer-old boy,
who confeased tlm* he ret the build
inr on fire, (tatiri; that he was hired
[p do so by 8awy?r, wi • sentenced
to serve three y»i r* at hard labor in
I he state prison.
Sawyer was unm< v. d when the
lentence was pronouarrj. nnd a few
lecond later he wni fc>-'n whispering
to his attorney*, lie cnterad an ap
[>enl to the Supreme court and bond
iraa fixed at I2'>.r>00 It la exported
this will be arranged at once
Mr. Kidder Talka
Wife—"Does she dreas well?"
He—"I dunno, I never watched
ier."
OUR DUMB CREATURES
Cntfa hi one of a eerie* of editorial* which will be published in
The New* from time to time with the hope of increaiinir the intere*t
of the general public in the proper car* of the dumb creature* about
u».)
There <ru a time in the hiatory of
mankind on earth when he lived alone
and wa* surrounded by none of the
lower animal* aa companion*. He
roamed the forest in the hunt of inch
foods as he could use just as the ani
mal* do today.
If we are to believe the conclusions
•f men who have studied the subject,
about the first animal that man used
was the dog. Back in that day the
dor was what we know now aa the
wolf. The wolf lived by the chase
and hunted down such animals aa the
rabbit and partridge. The food that
suited the wolf also suited man, and
so, one day, if we care to draw on the
imagination, the wolf puppy found
himaelf a captive and in the home of
a man. I-aUr he waa trained to
hunt and to delvier his catch to his
master. Thus man found that he
-ould use the wolf to advantage in
h « search for food, and so he made
the wolf his life companion. From
•election and training the various
types of dogs have developed.
It is supposed that mankind learn
ed that he could also use the cow and
the horse and the hofr and the sheep
and the cat just as he learned to use
the wolf. These animals were not
always companion* of man, but grad
ually came under man's dominion be
cause they could be used for his bene
fit
Not every man ia so situated that
he can uae all of the animala, but
moet all men can use some of them
in a way to make life more comfort
able and the search for food easier.
If the race of mankind* could not
keep the animala in a way to make
Mfe worth more then no man would
bother with the keeping of an ani
mal. Properly handled, they are aids
tn various way*, but the very fact
that a man has aa his prisoner a
•keep or a hog or a cow, it doee not
follow that he la aMe to profit by the
». One man by hia insight into Ufa
My be able to ao treat hia dog aa
to make him a great aooree of plea
am and profit, furnishing hia table
with many kinds of wild meat, while
—ether man would profit nothing by
bis dog but rather keep him at a bit
ef expense in the way of food, to say
•otking of the annoyance of having
• worthless animal abeat his place.
And tike asm* might be true ef the
beg or the cow or the bona.
The average family it ■utrowidad
and they are all supposed to be an aid
to man in hia effort to lire comfort
ably. Rut not every man ia able to
profitably uae the lower creatur«a in
a way to make life mean more to
thorn, we will in future iasuei of
thia paper talk further of the nature
of thoae creature* that man haa as
his captives.
Just now let ua aay a few words
about the dojr. Later we will write
of the horse and the cow and tho
sheep and the cat.
As we have said above, the dog
was made a companion of mxn be-!
cause he could be used With profit
to help secure food.
Every one knows that bark in the
days when this country was sparsely
settled the man of the house would
often take hia gun and dog and go to
the forest and spend the day hunting,
and when night would come he
would return home with all the wild
meat he could carry. And the dog
waa his main stay in the hunt.
Because the dog was so valnaM* to
man he took a high place in his life,
and the great love that man now has
for a dog developed because of the
great value the dog proved himself
to be.
But times have changed, and to
day many homes are keeping a dog
for mere sentiment and. so far as be
ing able to prove of any value, the
dog is no longer able to make good.
Many a house trife feeds her waste
from the table to a worthless cur
when the same waste might be pro
fitably fad to the chicken*.
In the run of a year a dog that
weighs thirty to fifty pounds will
consume large quantities of food that
could be every bit used by the hogs
or the chickena. We would guess
Qiat inly a very small percent of the
dogs kept in Surry county today are
able to be of profit to their masters
either in the way of watch dogs or in
the chase. The food they eat could
be made to produce many gallons of
milk or many do sens of eggs for the
family table.
This ia no effort to discredit the
dog. Man ijever had a better friend.
But In the sharp batle for the com
forts of lie the avenge family
should net be at the expense of feed
ing • worthless dog for mere senti
ment, when there are ee many other
things that could he found en which
to Uriah iiilhniM
Nest week me will talk of the mm. \
Bilk Would r*I Solicitor. o»
Salary.
Raleigh. ■>•». It.—Tha fimt of tk«
npwtnl bills aiMed at solicitor*'
: fees went into t)» senate hopper to
<tay. It was introduced hy Senatrr
Cost* Mo, of Aulander. and ftvaa the
salary of all aoiicitors at W.WH) the
vear, with • proriainn thet will run
the salaries in the larger districts to
M.000
The general very likely
will be given a hilt creating new Ju
dicial districts for rone iteration along
with the meanure r»gi»l:if'n» the re
numeration of solicit""*. A measure
<*a* helng prepar<-d hv several mem- J
bera of the senate today rreating ill
new Judicial districts. Under th« hill
the roontwa of New Hanover. Wall*,
Guilford. Bnnromhe, M« •klenhi.rg
and Forsyth would each constitute a
indicia! district, and the other 2" dl#
trirta would ha divided amount tha
94 other counties.
Before the anliritora' salary hilt
~rts through the legislature, the
chances ar« it will have noma rough
handling. Despite atl the talk of
solicitora drawing from 10 to IB thou
sand dollara the year through the
fee svstem. there la much oppnaltinn
in both houses to the propoaition to
put these attorney* on a salary. The
nrgument ia advanced that it would he
difficult to work out a schedule
wherehy the aoliritor in the district of
croudad court docketa and successive
••ourt terms would draw a fair salary
as compared with the anlicitor in the
districts of few courta and caaea.
Senator Coatelloe's hill aims at
such regulation, however, by placing j
the salary of all aolicitora at IS,1100
the year with a monthly expense of
not more than $80. He adda thia pro
vision which tends to give the aoli
citora in the larger districta addition
al compensation: "That at the end
cf each calendar year the several
solicitors shsll receive a further cotn
nensnttnn equal to the amount to
which he or she would have heen en
titled before the passage of this act;
provided further that no solicitor
shall receive more than the rate of
SK.000 per annum, exclusive of ex
penses."
Two bill* to carry out rwomiwn
dations of Superintendent Geo. Rosa
Pou of the ititn'i priaon for the
abolishment of the criminal inaane
department of the prison and the re
moval to hoapitala of tubercular
priaonera were introduced in the aen
ate thia morninr, the bill to aholiah
the criminal inaane department by
Harria, o" Wake, and the hill to re
move tubercular patienta by Bellamy,
of New Hanover.
Senator Harria' mcnaure would do
away entirely with the criminal in
sane ward, fnmatea would be remov
ed to atate hoapitala for the inaane.
The point of arynment hy advocate*
neraon ia not r»ally a criminal aince
he ia not responsible for hia actiona.
and therefore should properly he a
patient in one of the hoapitala for
the care of the inaane peraona.
Senator Bellamy's bill would pro
vide for the eatahliihment of a hos
pital for tubercular patienta whew
prisoners suffering from thil diaeaae
-onld he cared for and treated. They
would not fro to Sanatorium but into
a separate institution.
Born With No Left, He's Good
Mail Driver.
Washington, Jan. 10.—Natural
handicap* are no obstacle to many
people. A shining example is that of;
B. A. Jones, of Burlington, Mo., who
born without haa driven a rural
mail delivery route out of that town
for twenty years and never complain- '
ed. |
Jones' route was a standard-length
one of 25.5 mile* out of Burlington,'
and since 1901, when he was ap
pointed, he has missed only four days
from the Job and those because of
illness.
So interested were post office de
partment officials, who only recently
had his eaae called to their attention,
that Assistant Postmaster General
Billany wrote him • letter of con
gratulation for efficient service "per
formed in spite of a physical Meet
that well might have discouraged a
person of less fortunate tempera
ment, and with lees determination to
succeed In life." Before becoming a
letter carrier, Jonoa waa a farmer.
"It seems to me." Mr. Billany wrote
to Mr. Jones, "that your success may
be not only Interestin - to all carriers,
bat an inspiration to aay one who
may feel that he la laboring under
unusual or insuperable difficulties
and an encouragement to theas to
prees on m the performance of duties
which choice or ctrcum standee nay
require of him."
CAM. TALLEY SEN.
TENCED TO IS YEARS
SmUnct of TalUy Mark* Um
End of Sanulional Murder
and Manhunt.
Greensboro, Jan. 30.—The laat
chapter la tlx East Washington
street homicide of May 4, 1021. when
FN.Iircman W Thomas MrCuiston
was shot and killed In hia attempt to
make an arrant of bootlegger* waa
written In Goilford rountjr Superior
court about 4 o'clock yesterday after
noon when Carl Talley waa aentenred
to IS year* in the a tat* penitentiary
by Judge A. M Stack. Sentence waa
tmpoaed on* hour after the Jury had
returned Ita vrrdict finding Talley
guilty of murder in the aeeond degree.
The maximum penality for the crime
I* .10 yearn.
Prior to passing aentence upon
Talley. Judge A. M. Stark remarked:
"There la no doubt in my mind but
what Carl Talley did the ahooting
If ! war* on the jury it would hare
taken me no leaa than five minutea
to have convicted him. He waa the
only man of the trio In that liquor
car who had any motive for the kill
ing.
"Lewia Edwards. I believe, told the
truth and a falsehood while testify
ing on tha atand. But couple the evi
dence of Edward* with that of John
Morton, negro, and there is no doubt
hut what Talley did the ahooting.
Edwarda aaid he waa sitting on the
rear aeat, while Morton testified that
two men were on the front aeat.
Robertson, the dead man, didn't do
that shootinr I am convinced that
Talley did."
A tk.. LI. a_
the prisoner, who had • bandage!
■ round hi* head, who exhibited sign*1
of neverouanes* and with his hoad,
drooped, Judge Stack said: "That j
man is responsible for two lives—
that of Police Officer McCuistnn and i
his pal, Tommy Robertson. He is'
the author of four tragedies. He
gnade Mrs. McCuiston a widow and
Iter children orphans. He it repon
nible, in part, for Edwards' being
•onfined in the state penitentiary; he
was responsible for the death of his
[>al. Tommy Robertson, and he
tirought destruction to himself, sep
n rated his wife and children front
■urn."
Judge Stack then pronounced sen
tence upon Talley, saying. "Mr
"lerk, make the entry—15 years in
he state penitentiary." Talley bur
ied his face in his handkerchief and
wiped his eyes. His wife, who had
her head buried in her hands since
the Jury returned its verdict, shriek- j
id, "Oh, my God. Please have
mercy on him. Oh, please do!" She
was sobbing bitterly. It was then
that Jailer Mike Caffey led the pris
oner to his cell in the county jail.
Mrs. Talley accompanied her husband
from the courtroom.
The conviction of Talley yesterday
iftcrnoon closes all chapters in the
hold and daring tragedy. Lewis Ed
wards, a hired employe of Talley. was
ronvicted by a Guilford county Supe- j
rior court during the October 1921
term of murder in the second degree.
He was sentenced to 10 years in the
itate penitentiary. Tommy Robert
son, the third member of the party,,
the driver of the liquor car. was
killed while trying to make hi* *»
-ape from police officers immediate
ly after the shooting.
Carl Tally, the leader of the trio,
long evaded the police officers. He
made his getaway after the shooting
ind succeeded in hiding himself from
the clutches of the law until Christ
mas eve, 1922. when his arrest was
made in the vicinity of Scottaburg
Va. Wrong living brought Talley
Into the hands of the law for
his capture was perfected aa the re
sult of hi* being shot in the neck
Following • quarrel with his cousin
over the dissolving of partnership in
in automobile. Following the killing
>f Policeman McCuiston. the trio in
the Dodge car, speeded along the
Battleground with police officers at
their heels.
At the Battleground road Edwards
«nd Talley beat their way into the
woods. Edwards was captured by
Sheriff D. B. Stafford while Taltoy
■tade his eecape. Since that time
ind prior to his an eel, Talley la al
leged to h»r* continued his illegal
liquor traffic both in tM* state and
Virginia. According to a statement
told to a Daily News reporter after
r*Iley was confined in the county
tail here, he eMtod this city once
tiate lb* fatal shooting, coming hers
In pay a vie it to his wife. Re atotod
that he nam* at dark, remained a
frw minute* and than hfL
It took but little tima to praaant
«• evidenc* againat Talley. The tarn
actually started at S o'clock Friday
afternoon and all evidence had bean
urathrnd shortly hafora S o'clock.
Talley did not taka the atand in Ma
own behalf. Nor did tha defense
offer any taatimony, Judge Stark
s'tatrrday afternoon, atatad to Mr.
Olidewell, "By not placing your man
on tha utand you aavad him manv
ye* many year*."
ALL DEFENDANTS ARE
DECLARED NOT GUILTY
Fnd of Horrin Mur Itr Trial
Cam* So Suddenly That Men
On Trial Were Da sad.
Marion, HI.. Jan. 19.- After nearly
27 hour*' daliheration a Jury of Wtl
linmaon rounty farmer* today de
livered a verdict of not guilt in the
first raae resulting from tha killing
of 21 non-union worker* during tha
Iterrin rk<ts laat Jane.
The end of the long trial came so
suddenly that 'both spectator* and
the five defendant* who are ehargm
with the murder of Howard Hoffman
one of the victim* of the oothreak. j
appeared dazed. Ai Judge D. T.
Hartwell finished reading tha last
verdict, the only sound that broke
the illence In the courtroom wax a
half *mnthered *ob from the wif" of
one of the defend* nta.
Word that the jury had reach'd a
verdict wa* receive*' hy Judge Hart
well at hi* office at 1 V> o'clock thl*
afternoon. He immediately notified
the attorney* and oHered the de
fendant* brought fiom the jail a
block away. The new* *prea<l among
the crowd, which haa stood patiently i
about the square watching the court
house ever since the jury retired at
11:111 a. m. veaterday The court
room filled *wiftly.
After warning the spectatorsj
ivnindt any demon**.ra;i«n, .ludee
Hart wet! ordered the ,-ury Drought in.
Five minute* later the last of the
separate verdict* *u read and r»
M'iv.f! in dead silence. Wilk • h» lie
fenciunt* *at slmo motionle** ;
rheir chair* without uny sign of mii»
»i. n, the jury fl ed out hy one door,
thr *pectatnm left by another nnd,
just ten minutsa fr»m the time the
jury was brought in the ct'i'troom
was again empty. All of th« jur-.rs
refused to discuss 'heir verdict and
melted away in the crowd* that leath
ered in tittle groups about the squcre
to discuss the finding. One sa<d that;
15 or 20 ballots were taken. Another
declared they were all agreed on the
innocence of 'our of the defendant* on j
the first ballot, but refused to name J
the fifth regarding whom there was
a difference of opinion. Several Ju
ror* indicated that the verdicts re-;
suited from the alibis submitted byt
the defense for all of the five accused
and because they considered that a
"reasonable doubt" existed regarding
the guilt of all five defendants.
North Carolina is a Large
Place.
ine uasionis iiueue nss own pro
jecting with • map and divider* and
has discovered that:
Toronto and Mount Airy are the
same distance apart aa Murphy and1
Cape Hatteras.
Jacksonville, Fla., Indianapolis, To
ledo, New Haven, Coon., are all with
in 20 miles of being the same dis
tance from Raleigh as it is from Cape
Hatteras to Murphy.
It is only about 08 mile* further
from Murphy to Raleigh than it Is
from Raleigh to Washington, D. C.„
but it requires about double the time
to make a trip from Murphy to Ra
leigh as it does from Raleigh to
Washington, D. C.
Memphis, on, the Mississippi river,
anj Cincinnati are about 18 miles
nearer to Murphy than oar state
capital, Raleigh.
Six state capitals are nearer Mur
phy than Raleigh, oar own state
capital. They are a* follows:
Atlanta, about >10 miles nearer
Murphy thaa to Raleigh.
Frankfort about 56 miles nearer
Murphy thaa Raleigh.
Nashville, about 78 mOes Mam
Murphy thaa Raleigh.
Montgomery, about SO milee neater
Murphy thaa Raleigh.
Charleston, W. V*. about BO arias
nearer Murphy thaa Raleigh.
Durham and St Thomas. Canada,
are cloaer together thaa Cape Hat
teras and Murphy.
NORTH CAROLINA
MEN ARE TALLEST
Rcvtaw of F nibatiw af Sar
vie« Mm Mad* by S«
g*on GmmtiL
New York, Ju. 11.—"C«mIMV
th» population groups. the tallest sua
caiae from the mountain UM «#
North Carolina. The»* mm wet* at
Scotch demrent and average HJf
ncbes."
This It a matement ( <i I isilaa
of the aummary mad* from tha ras
ord* of ph; cal exam nations «f
ervwa men during tha world war *»
rruiting hjr Surgeon General Mag
ritte W. Ir»land, of tha UnKed Stats*
nrmy for tha Joarnal of tha »mm
iraii Medical aaaociatioa. Otter
■tatrn.enta follow:
"Among tha population rroupa tte
greatest number of defects was mM
from tha Frenrh-Oanadlaae (88.4 par
r^nt) and tha laaat among tha Mas
iran* (47.2 par rant), cloeelf follow
by tha native white* of 8cMA
origin (47.3 par cant.)
"In each hundred man fraaa tte
urtiin districts there wara (1 drfeata
noted, and from tha rural, 53."
Tha review shows that a defect af
tome character waa noted in *0 par
rent of all men from Khoda
while thqpe from Kanaaa had oaly
about 42 per root Th* ararap
weight for tha United Stataa waa
141.64 pound*, tha heaviest com lag
from South Dakota (146.96 pounds)
and tha lightest from Khoda hlaai
(136.44 pounds.) Tha average haigfck
of a million men was 67.49 tnchaa,
the shortest also coming from Rhoda
Island (66.4 inches.) The tallaat, am
stated shove, came from weetera
North Carolina. More men from tte
cities were rejected (23 per cent)
than from the rural districts aad
small towns (20 per cant) th* repeat
shows.
Louisiana Town Rank With
Immorality.
Bastrop, La., Jan. 12. -Lomsisaa
is confronted with a real proposition
hrrr. The kidnapping of J. L Dm
iels, a man of wealth, a Mason, ST
years old, his son. Watt Daniels, W.
C. Andrews, a young farmer with
means, Thomas R. Richards, and
others in broad daylight, on the pub
lic highway, and taking them into tha
woods and beating them was seri
ous enough, but the indications are
that two of the party wer» brutally
murdered. These alleged crimaa
were committed hv Hooded men, arm
ed with shotguns, rifles and pistols.
Witnesses have testified that they
believed Klansmen committed the
deeds. This be'ief is based on tha
fart that the Ku Kl'ix Klan Sad he«a
very active about nere. regulating
people of the community, and making
a stab at enforcing the proh'bition
laws.
Bastrop is locatd in the heart of
a cotton farming region. It is tha
capital of Morehouse pariah, tha
parish corresponding to a North
Carolina county. Ita population to
approximately 1,000 much of whidh
is colored. A Tar Heel of the pm
ent day would feel out of place hart,
for the roads are bad, the use of tha
horse and saddle stiU a feature, aaA
the wearing of big hats—-cowboy t
effect— common. I have seen a mas
with a waist not much larger than
that of • wasp wearing a hat with
s brim the sis* of a lady's psraasi
Mounted an a galloping pony, this
fellow la a spectacular More boose
parish citisen.
The older men of the community
are substantial and attractive look
ing. Many old Confederate soldier*
remain to tell tha story of the Chi
war and reconstruction days.
if North Carolina famQiea are
resented in tha coomty. Long
the Civil war enterpr
Carolinians drifted
wd settled. Some of ths blood It
bars today. Aa a rule the
tnts at thoaa people
wd are law-abiding
Bat ™ '
Slrely foreign to North Oaishaa
Soma of thsm asms from sowtt aal
pesst of hart.
Sevan or sight miles ftom here Is
the village of Mar Boago- mlsalag
Red Sea. The lands aba* Mar
Rouge ars rich, and tha