STATE GETS MOST
ROADS FOR MONET
FRANK PAGE TALKS OF RESULTS
OF HIGHWAY PROGRAM AT
BAYBORO.
BIG CELEBBATION STAGED
In Honor of the Completion of the
New Bern and Bayboro Asphalt
Road.
Bayboro.—North Carolina gets more
roads for the money it spends than
any other State of the Union does or
ever has, Frank Page, State Highway
Commissioner, told a hord of Pamli
eoans, who came from every quarter
through the hardest rain the county
has witnessed in months to take part
in the celebration staged in honor of
the completion of the New Bern-Bay
boro asphalt road an dto hear Mr.
Page tell of the progress made on
Carolinas’ great highway project.
Governor Cameron Morrison also
was slated to make a speech but the
death of T. C. Leak in Rockingham
county compelled him to cancel the
engagement at the last moment. J E.
Cameron, commissioner for this dis
trict. alitf> spoke.
Mr. Page reveiwed the work of the
Highway Commission since its incep
tion. pointing out that the State had
only 210 miles of improved » roads
when the commission was created.
Within four years the total of fin
ished roads has passed the three thou
sand mile mark and thousands of other
miles are under construction. The
State is spending a tremendous sum
of money, he said, but the saving to
its people in gasoline and wear and
tear on automobiles alone are millions
of dollars each year. Mr. Page spoke,
too. of the justice of the system of
taxation through which the State ac
quires funds for the retirment of the
road debt. Automobile owners pay
it. Those who travel little pay little,
those who travel much pay much.
Visitors from other states who use
these roads pay too through the gaso
line tax. Folks who own no cars pay
no road tax.
For the great service hemg given
the people of North Carolina by the
Highway Commission Mr. Page wanted
np more of the credit than due any
member of the organization. The nine
directors and the great skilled engi
neers. skilled and unskilled workmen
from the organization to which all
credit is due he said. North Carolina
is blessed by their devotion to duty.
They have done the work.
Endorse Deep Water.
Wilmington.—To General Lansing
H. Beach, head of the engineers for
the war department, the chamber of
commerec has written a letter abso
lutely endorsing the proposal of Fav
+ etteville to have the government pro
vide eight feet of water to the Cum
belrand metropolis the year-round by
building a third lock and dam on the
upper Cape Fear river.
A letter has been directed to R.
M. Horsburgh, secretary of the Fay
etteville chamber, stating that this
city will lend to Fayetteville any and
all support in their efTort to have the
board of engineers for rivers and har
bors recommend the construction of
said lock and dam.
6alvation Army at Fayetteville.
Fayeteville.—A definite decision to
establish a post of the Salvation Army
in this city was the result of a mass
meeting held in the courthouse here,
and Salvation Army work on a per
manent basis wil lbe inaugurated in
Fayetteville with the first of the year.
The meeting, which was attended by
a good number of the city's most rep
resentative men and women, was ad
dressed by Major William H. Barrett,
of Charlotte, commander of the divis
ion composed of North and South
Carolina. Major Barrett made a most
interesting talk on the work of the
great organization.
Pictures What Schools Doing.
Asheville.—Mrs. Curts Bynum, presi
dent of State Parent-Teachers asso
ciation, has accepted an offer from the
Famous Players-Lasky picture corpor
ation to carry monthly on the screen
1 nits North Carolina theaters inter
esting facts about what the state asso
ciation is doing for the welfare of
parents and children.
The ofTer was made a short time
ago to Mrs. Bync*n by R. D. Turner,
manager of the Imperial, which is
operated by the Famous Players. Mr.
Turner told Mrs. Bynum that his com
pany will be glad to flash short an
nouncements of its monthly activities
at the conclusion of the regular pro
grams in its theaters in the state.
Shippers Meeting Changed.
Rocky Mount.—The meeting of
Eastern Carolina shippers which was
scheduled to have b^en held at Wil
son Saturday, Dec. 8, for the purpose
of further perfecting the Eastern Car
olinian Shippers’ Association has been
postponed until December 27, when it
will be held at Goldsboro, according
to announcement received by chamber
of commerce officials and shippers
here, from M. R. Beaman, of Wilson
secretary of the newly formed organi
sation.
To Improve Roads.
Asheville. — Improvement of all
roads through government reserva
tion at Oteen Veterans’ Hospital will
be undertaken in the near future, ac
cording to announcement made by
Colonel Miller, head of that institu
tion. An engineer from the Veterans'
Bureau at Washington is now at Oteen
making estimates of the cost and as
soon as his report is completed and
acted on by the bureau, work is ex
pected to start. There are several
miles of road around the hospital.
Bulb Development on Coast.
An investigation looking toward the
possibilities of bulb development in
the Wilmington section will shortly
be made by the coastal plain branch
experiment station, according to an
announcement made here by the state
department of agriculture. The ex
periment will be conducted in the
section around Wilmington.
Dr. Charles Dearing. superintendent
of the state, has purchased sufficient
bulbs of the hyancinth group to plant
one acre of land and planting will
commence immediately. Dr. Dearing
states that he wishes his station to be
in a position to advise comm rcial
growers concerning the possibilities ol
bulb culture and to aid and encourage
such planting should the venture
about to be undertaken prove success
ful.
"At least two commercial growers,”
said Dr. Dearing in the statement ol
the department made public tonight,
j have already begun the venture. It
seems that the federal department ol
agriculture has placed an embargo on
hvacinth'bulbs from Holland and other
foreign countries to become effective
in 1926."
This action. Dr. Dearing states, was
1 taken because of the presence of some
i plant disease which makes the impor
j tation of these bulbs a dangerous mat
! tor: but the the federal authorities
have given the growers until 1926 sa
that the industry may have an oppor
tunity to be started in this country.
The coastal station will be one of the
first in the country to begin an experi
ment of this nature.
“Bulbs sufficient to plane one acre."
declared Dr. Dearing, “now cost about
$1,275. From the claims made by
commercial growers, however, thera
should be returns of about $800 th •
first season from the flowers: about
$1,200 the second season from flowers,
and from both flowers and mother
bulbs in the third season, 1926, at least
$2,250 per acre. The indications are
that the growth of these. bulbs for
selling the cut flowers and the mother
bulbs should open up a profitable field
of intensive farming for the section
of North Carolina.”
Raps Inefficiency of Schools.
“What education in North Carolina
needs, white and black alike. Is a few
more real teachers and a few less time
servers.” Miss Elizabeth Kelley, presi
dent of the State Education Associa
tion told of thousand members of the
Negro State Teachers Assembly here,
speaking before the second session of
the annual convention held in the City
Auditorium.
It was the second consecutive even
ing of plain speaking through which
the Negro teachers have passed. Miss
Kelley got down to the fundamentals
of education, pointed out its defects
and challenged the Negroes to d«
their part in eliminating them
With even more enthusiastic ap
plause and "amens" than greeted tha
Governor, the Negro teachers ap
plauded the head of the white teach
ers of the State when she held up to
ridicule many of the educational dog
mas and called upon all teachers to
see what they are worth to the com
munity where they are working, and
if they don't measure up. to get out of
the way for a real teacher.
“When you have taught a boy to
read and write a few intelligent sen
tences. to spell and to count enough to
get through with the ordinary process
es of life and have planted in him the
belief that he can do anything he sets
his heart on—then you have educated
him. and until then you have wasted
your time and his time and every
body's money." she told the teachers
and they shouted for her.
Education is the biggest business in
the State, with an investment of 50
million in capital and an operating ac
count of thirty million a year anil
nearly a million people taking part,
either as raw material or as operativ
es, Miss Kelley said. It is the biggest
business and there Is less known
about it. she repeated. Many people
brag about it who know nothing about
it.
The University and the colleges are
fine, but out in the back country,
where eighty per cent of the children
of the State live. 60 per cent of the
schools are not worthy of the name,
she said She gave the figures from
a county where she had recently made
a survey of the schools. In the first
grade there were 1.642 children and in
a year only 421 of them were promot
ed to the second grade.
Plan Welfare Bureau for Negroes.
Establishment of a bureau with a
trained negro worker in charge who,
under the commissioner, will super
vise the public welfare work among
the negroes in North Carolina is the
next line of extension of its activities
planned by the State Board of Chari
ties and Public Welfare. Mrs. Kate
Bnrr Johnson. Commissioner of Public
welfare, told the members of the N.
C. Negro Teachers’ Assembly at the
concluding session of their meeting
here.
Winston-Salem Leads in Permits.
Winston-Salem is leading ali North
Carolina cities in the number of per
mits issued for new buildings and re
pairs to old buildings during the
month of October, according to the
monthly report of the Federal Reserve
Bank of Richmond of activities in the
Fifth Federal Reserve Bank of Rich
mond of activities in the Fifth Federal
Reserve District. In the value of new
construction, however, Greensboro
was leading with a total expenditure
during the month of $387,210.
Asheville Man to Draft Water Report.
Reports to be made by the State
Ship and Water Transportation Com
mittee will be compiled by Harry W.
Plummer, of Asheville, who has been
engaged for the work, according to an
announcement by Charles E. Waddell,
chairman of the commission’s commit
tee in charge of preparing the report.
The commission has been engaged
In conducting an extensive and com- I
prehensive investigation of North Car
olina’s port possibilities and the po
tentialities of watsr commerce.
(VI
V. -i-JI/l] mamma said for me to write
(1 TocLear old Santa Claus tonight;
| Sol have told him, best l could.
That 1 have been so uerg good—
1 And as he’s sure to come our wag,
/ A call on me l know he’ll pag;
? I’d like a doll a cart and horn.
5 And all the jogs of Christmas mom.
v ^ . jv . ~?VCrV J Wdls
Christmas Love Brought Her Joy
|| ELL, girls, I have made it up
with Beatrice.” Ann, “the
hard-boiled” of the office,
yanked off her coat a: d hat
and placed them in the locker
that ranged across the end of the
room.
No one puld much attention to Ann
usually, she was of such an explosive
nature, and said such irresponsible
tilings, that she was not taken seri
ously. Itut the break between Ann and
Beatrice had been of long standing
and had been commented upon so
much by Ann that her announcement
caused the other girls to look up
questioning!)'.
“That's a fact," continued Ann.
“and I am so ashamed of my treatment
of her this long time.”
“How did it come about?” asked
Sadie, assistant to the department
manager.
“Well," exclaimed Ann, "I will have
to confess my beastly nature, before I
can tell you how It happened. In a
spirit of spite I sent Beatrice a Christ
mas present, which no one but good
little Bea could ever have nccepted
as anything but an Insult. It makes
no difference what It was. Today
noon I met her on the street and she
stopped me to thank me for the pres
ent.
“ ‘It was not the present so much,
Ann, that came by mail,’ said she.
•What made me feel good was that
you hud been thinking of me.’ Then
she took hold of my hand to caress It
and suid, ‘It wns not any kind of a
present that I wanted most from you,
Ann, but your love and companionship
and sympathy. I Iwive been hungry for
you. Ann. and y« u had no right to
take yourself away from me. I give
you my love for Christmas—will you .
give me yours?’ And little Ann. the
hard-boiled, cried right on the street. !
What do you think of that, girls?”
"The day of miracles Is not past, it
seems," commented one.
“And now do you know what 7’ This
from Ann. The girls waited expectant
ly for further information from the
erratic one.
"Well, I always thought Christmas
was to get people to spend lots of !
money to send things to other people
that they did not want," rattled off
Ann. "Now I have a new understand- j
lng of Christmas since my most loyal j
friend has asked me only for my love j
. . . and she sure is going to get
It.”—C. F. Wadsworth.
<©. 1923. Western Newspaper Union.)
GREETINGS!
From out jur house the candles glow
With ruddy, cheerful light.
And may their gleam across the snow
Reach you and yours tonight
For we have peace and Joy and health
To bless our Christmas fire.
And love, that Is the fairest wealth
That any can desire.
So. out across the drifting snow.
Our Christmas song speeds true;
Our candle-flames all bravely go
To light our wish to you.
—Edith Ballinger Price.
Busy Mailmen Add to Our Chriitmas Cheer
lyyi ItOM house to house they go
IV4I with cards and calendars of
cheer, presents and surprises.
Always cheery, never com
plaining, how much they add
to our Christmas Joy and pleasure!
If cross expressions were worn by
those who brought us our Christmas
presents It would not be the same.
And yet they work so hard, so over
hard, they carry so much, and all to
others, to help make them happy.
Our mailmen are a pretty wonder
ful lot and our Christmas time Is
added to by them to a very big de
gree.
It seems as though we should do
our part to give a little cheer to our
mailmen in gratitude and appreciation
of the spirit in which they do their
work.—Mary Graham Bonner.
(© H21. Western Newspaper Union.)
Magic of Chriatmaa
Sweep* Entire World
tsrpiHE magic of ChrlRtmas ilea
irnl over the world today, changing
the dreary commonplace events
PtH nf yesterday Into things of
wonder and delight and filling
the earth with happiness and joy and
cheer. It permeates the whole earth
from end to end and mankind in every
land and In every clime responds to
it in the fullest measuie. For Into
our hearts at this time there come*
a beautiful something that raises us
above ourselves and brings us to
greater heights than we ever reach at
any other time. For with the magic
of Christmas time man buries self
In trying to promote the happiness
and well-being of others and In doing
this finds greatest happiness for him
self also. For It seems as If the more
we give of love, of service and of our
selves the fuller grows the store from j
tvhlch we draw upon and the richer
we grow In the things that make for|
our own happiness. Let us then allow
the raugle of Chrlstmustime to fall
upon us so deeply that It may not
only sniy with us at this time but
through all the days to* follow.—
Katherine Edelrnan.
<©. 1923. Western Newnp*p,r Union.)
I ymnLi
NEVER TOO HIGH
It might be different with a lot of
things around Christmas, but the ml»
tletoe is never too high.
[ DOINGS IN THE
1 TAR HEEL STATE
l NEWS OF NORTH CAROLINA
£ TOLD IN SHORT PARA
I GRAPHS FOR BUSY PEOPLE
Winston-Salem. — The Winston-Sa
j lem Presbytery is \he name chosen
for the new division of the Presbyter
ian Church cut off from the Orange
Presbytery by order of the Synod of
North Carolina.
Greensboro. — Liquor brought a
beautiful 18-year-old girl here to a
60-day sentence in jail, and, in addi
tion. earned her a beating at the
hands of two young men. according
to testimony in municipal court.
Wilmington.—Mayor James H. Cow
an, of Wilmington. wTio has served as
North Carolina vice president of the
j Atlantic Deeper Waterways associa
. tion. has been elected a director at
large of that important organization.
| Asheville.—Plans for the enlarge
ment of Mars Hill college. Raptist
; juior college located near Asho\«?J*
i involving an expenditure of $125,000,
will he outlined at a meeting of alum
ni and officials of the institutions at
Gastonia.
: Hickory —The city of Hickory sold
$140,000 worth of bonds at premiums
and interest rates which, acording to
Rruce Craven, who prepared both is
. sues, that set a record for municipal
paper in this state.
Fayetteville.—A negro elevator boy
named Thuyston was killed instantly
while attempting to repair an elevator
In a local hospital here. The negro
came in contact with an electric wire
owing, it is said, to ignorance of the
machinery.
Wilmington —J. C. Vereen. promin
ent merchant of Phoenix, five miles
west of here, was brought to a local
hospital after having been shot from
ambush in the front #vard of his
home. A load of buckshot took ef
feet in bis head and neck.
ureensDoro.—liumora county com
missioners voted to place a steel door
at the entrance of the county jail, on
the top floor of the ourthouse. to cost
$540. The door will be useful In re
pelling any mob that might take a
notion to get a prisoner, and also be
useful in preventing the escape of
prisoners.
Rocky Mount -News was received
here of the suicide of C. L. Edwards,
traffic officer on the state highway
between this city and Tarboro. which
occurred at his home in the Edge
combe county capital.
New Bern.—Bridgeton, little town
across Neuse river from here, took
another long step forward when it
passed with an overwhelming vote a
bond issue for $212,000 to be used for
paving sidewalks, and making other
permanent street improvements. The
issue was passed by a ratio of about
nine to one in a registration of only
91.
Charlotte.—Dr. A. M. Redfearn. 61.
for 27 years college surgeon at Clem
son College. S. C., died in Charlotte
hospital where he had been under
treatment ten days. He was born in
Anson county, N. C . and had lived in
Charlotte since he retired from medi
cal practice three years ago.
Winston-Salem.—Col. J. C. Bessent,
who has been a Justice of the peace
since September. 1894, has officiated
at the marriage of one thousand eou
pies. This honor came to him when
he performed the ceremony, uniting
the lives of George D. Crouch, and
Mrs. Dossie Durham.
Salisbury.—W. L. Baker, local post
office clerk, is in a local hospital with
a broken leg sustained when he tried
to crank his automobile with the en
gine in gear.
Asheville.—A mistrial was ordered
in the cases of Mrs. Jennie Poe. 65.
and her granddaughter. Ethel Cald
well, charged with the murder of the
former's husband. W. A. Poe, on Au
gust 26th, according to word from
Waynesville.
Kaleign.—taenton street xuetnoaisi
church will have the first church
chimes to be introduced in Raleigh.
The chimes to be installed at once are
the gift of Mrs. N. E. Edgerton and
her son.
Morganton. — Governor Morrison
has authorized a special term of Burke
County Superior court to convene here
January 7 to try criminal caees. Judge
B. F. Long, of Statesville, will-preside
Winston-Salem.—While playing hi
the woods during the noon redess, stu
dents of the Mineral Springs School.
Just northeast of the city, found a
quantity of whiskey. Officers were
notified and an investigation revealed
35 gallons.
Henderson.—County Farm Agent J.
C. Anthony and a party of Vance coun
ty farmers have returned from a 500
mile trip through the boll weevil in
fested areas of the Carolinas in which
they made a close up study of the best
methods of combatting the pest.
Winston-Salem.—A new Presbytery
to be composed of nine counties in this
section, formerly a part of Orange
Presbytery, will be formed at a meet
ing to be held here. The counties to
compose the new Presbytery are For
syth. Surry, Stokes. Alleghaney. Ashe.
WUkes. Davie. Davidson and Yadkin.
Kinston*—The coming holidays will
be the dryest this town has ever
known. Spurred on by public senti
ment county and city officials have
practically cleared this section of boot
leggers and the court docket Is con
gested with cases against alleged
whiskey ranners.
Greensboro.—Ethel Allen, negro wo
man, while drunk and chasing her
husband on Elm street, chief thorough
fare here, took a shot at him and miss
ed him. bat hit a blind white man.
Clyde Pence. . newspaper salesman.
Pence was hit In the hip aud badly
hurt, but will recover, it is thought.
High Point.—Congestion of the local
yards of the Southern Railway Com
pany apparently due to a lack of suffi
cient labor to meet the Increased busi
ness has caused much unfavorable
comment It waa Indicated that High
Pofnt shippers would appeal to execu
tives of the railroad for relief.
NINE KILLED IN
TRAIN COLLISION
SEVEN OTHER PEOPLE ARE IN
JURED. TWO PROBABLY
FATALLY.
BILL DOMAN IS A VICTIM
Third Section Telescopes Second
Which Had Stopped on Account
Auto on Track.
Forsythe. N. Y.—Two sections of
the Twentieth Century Limited, the
pride of the New' York Central rail
road, crashed in the fog and rain here
with the loss of nine lives. The loco
motive of one section ploughed
through an observation car on tho
rear of the other, which had stopped
because of the wreckage of an auto
mobile by the foremost section of the
train which was running in three
parts.
All of the dead and injured were
in the observation car. which was rip
ped open by the impact. The dead in
clude \Y. B. (Wild Bill) Donovan
manager of the New Haven club of the
Eastern league, who with other base
ball magnates, was on his way to
Chicago to attend the baseball con
clave. The automobile which was the
indirect cause of the wreck became
stalled on a railroad crossing, and
three occupants of the machine jump
ed as they saw the express train
thundering down upon them. They
escaped injury and were eye witnesses
of the wreck which followed a few
minutes later.
The second section of the limited
had passed the first when the latter
developed engine trouble near Almany
and it was this section which hit the
automobile. After determining that
no one was injured, the train pro
ceeded. The first section, following
a few minutes later, stopped to in
vestigate when the blazing automo
bile was sighted, and was standing
still when the third section crashed
into if.
President John A. Heydler, of the
National League, and other baseball
meh were among the first to reach
the wrecked car and helped in re
moving the dead and injured.
Charles J. Patterson, of Cleveland,
engineer of the third section, declared
at the seen that he had seen the
warning block signal and red fiare to
fttoy the train. He declared he had
applied his brakes when he first saw
the signal, but that because of the
fog he was upon the other section
before he could stop.
The list of dead announced offi
cially by New York Central head
quarters here follows:
Mr. and Mrs. Otto Sweet, Los Ange
les. Calif.
Mr. and Mrs. K. Ernest Sturman,
Springfield. 111.
W. B. Donovan, manager New Hav
en, Conn.. Eastern League baseball
club.
Mr. and Mrs. Richard Sullivan, of
Springfiield, 111.
Mrs. Carl D. Kinsey, Chicago.
R. Pannell, Pullman porter. New
York city.
Message of Coolidge Well Received.
New York.—Interest in financial and
business circles during the past week
naturally centered in President Cool
idge's message, and. judging by the
behavior of the securities markets,
the document was well received. Busi
ness men were reassured by the defi
nite stand taken in favor of tax reduc
tion and most observers were pleased
with the position taken in regard to
railroads.
Final returns on the net earnings
of class one railroads in October
showed a total of 1102.700.000 or 4.78
per cent of the interstate commerce
commission's valuation as compared
with $98,200,000 or 4.46 per cent in
September. Car loadings continued to
hold up well, the total for the week
ended November 24 being 990.000 a
figure larger than ever was reached in
any preceding November.
Sign Trade Pact With the Germans.
Washington.—The United States
Government is gradually extending
its commercial treaties and trade
agreements to cover all the wartime
nations of the world, securing in every
instance the “most favorable national
clause" which ensures for American
commerce at least an equality of op
portunities and conditions In the fight
for world trade.
A new treaty of this character was
signed at the State Deaprtinent be
tween the United States and Germany,
one of the few formal conventions that
have been consummated between the
two Governments since the signing
of th separate treaty of peace in 1922.
Big Power Plant Sold.
Charlotte. N. C.—The largest con
sideration ever paid for a deed fop
property in the county, according to
officals In the ofTice of Clerk of Court
James M. Yandle. was placed on
record when papers Vere filed record
ing the sale of the dam and bulkhead
at Mountain Island by the Catawba
Manufacturing and Eelectrlc Power
Company to the Southern Public Utili
ties Company for $30,000,000.
The consideration named on the
deed was ‘‘$1,000 and other consider
ations."
Explosion Injures Three.
Plen Bluff, Ark.—Three persona
were injured and damage estimated at
$40,000 was caused by an explosion
which wrecked a portion of Sahara
Temple Shrine building and damaged
the fronts of two stores here. Escap
ing gas is believed to have caused the
blast
Several persons were In the build
ing hut none was seriously hurt. The
three Injured suffered painful bruises
and shock.