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Vol. II No. 14 _ RALEIGH, N. C., FRIDAY, APRIL 10,1925 $2.00 Per Year; Single Copy 5 Cents STREET SCENE IN SMITHFIELD, WHERE EXPOSITION OPENS MONDAY MR. EVANS SPEAKS , AT WAKE COURT HOUSE SOLICITOR EVANS DENOUNCES " LAWLESS CONDITIONS Df RALEIGH Criminals Have Police Protection Either Through Corruptness or Inefficiency, Says Solicitor Criminal practices here are shameful, says W. F. Evans, Solicitor of the Seventh Judicial Dis trict, in a speech delivered, in Wake Superior Court room#Tuesday night. ' Lawlessness in this city is due to corruptness or inefficiency in the police department, he says. He cites many cases in which he charges the crimi nals must have had police protection. Solicitor says he cannot go on and on without support and appeals to the good citizens of this community to make it the clean city it should be. ' He says that fathers and mothers all over the State are sending their daughters and sons here to be educated and that Raleigh should be made a I* decent place for them to come and they should have proper protection while, here. He called at tention to one letter he had received from a father who sent his son here to school and the boy, on account of the unlimited supply, began to drink liquor and had to go home. He says the editor of one of the leading news papers of the State had written him congratulat ing him on his move to stop crime here and asked him not to spare the Legislators who came here and indulged in liquor during the last session. && Mr. Evans said it had been charged that he was ^Uprompted to make his speech by one of the lead ing politicians of Raleigh. He says this charge is absolutely false. He says his move was on his own motion, that he had consulted with no politi cian in reference to it believed it to be his duty as prosecuting attorney of this district to let the people know the truth. He called on the citizens to exact a promise for law enforcement from the one to be elected.' I I hate to say this before a mixed *5 audience/' the solicitor said, “but there is a class of criminal operations being performed in Raleigh that is a stench and a disgrace to the commun ity. People are coming' to Raleigh from a distance and having criminal operations performed at a place that has police protection. I know that. I am not bluffing.” Solicitor Evans’ proposed exposure of conditions in Raleigh drew to the Superior court'room where he spoke a crowd that filled every seat on the floor and in the balcony and crammed into every available corner of stand ing space. Chief of Police Jf Winder Bryan at whose department the ma jority of the solicitor's charges were aimed sat within the bar and took notes of the speaker. The, audience vra|.: composed of a fine looking typ* of men and women.5 Practically all the preachers of the city, leading members of the bar and leaders in civic and professional life were present. None of the three com missioners . were seen in the audience but several of the candidates who are opposing their re-elected were pres ent. Nearly a score of the 40 mem bers of the city police force were oc cupying choice seats. The solicitor made it plain that he had no candidate and that he had no man for whom he wished an office. He definitely refused alignment with T. D. Parish, candidate for- commis sioner of public safety who issued printed bills advertising the speech and his candidacy yesterday after noon. Mr. Javans named few names that have not already graced the public prints for crime already committed. He told of conditions, however, and gave incidents without naming the principle. He charged individual po licemen with frequenting whiskey sell ing places, but left their names un spoken. In the last of his speech he stated that he did not want to deal in personalities but that he could prove what he had said and if he was pressed he would prove it as he was accustomed before the bar of the su perior Court. He received the greatest applause of the evening when he attacked the writer of an anonymous letter who wrote “if you say what it is reported you will say you won’t get out of the courthouse alive. A dead lion doesn’t scare the other beasts.’’ “This doesn’t scare me worth a cent,” Evans declared. “I denounce the writer of this letter as a coward and a skunk and I dare him to stand up in this audience.” The crowd cheered his defiance. Charges "Protection” Solicitor Evans drove his attack at police protection “either corruptly or inefficiency” and declared that it did not matter who was chief so long as certain old members of the force were retained. He illustrated his A*rges I by recounting the incident of the raid on the Commonwealth Club by county and federal officers under his direc tion. He declared that at least four policemen were in the block but they knew nothing about the raid until four or five of the leading citizens of the town jumped out of the front win dow of the club into their arms. He declared that one of the escap ing citizens turned on' the policemen and demanded: “Why in the blankety blank didn’t you tell us this was going to happen?” “The Commonwealth Club could not not have operated without protection,” Solicitor Evans declared, “and Ed Chappell couldn’t have sold liquor where he did without police protec tion either corruptly or inefficiently. The policemen are always ready to prove good characters for members of the underworld. How can you ex jsfect a f&rce that has such a high re*-, gard for criminals to ever catch them?” - Crimes Suppressed The solicitor declared that last Tuesday night a week ago a white man and a negro woman were arrest ed by the police. He said that the woman was let off without any bond and the man was let off with a ten dollar bond. Later in the night he said the police found the same man and woman in the woman’s house to gether but that the matter has never been reported. Hamlet Stuffed Ballot Box He declared that .at the last city election a fine woman watched the ballot box in his ward all day long to prevent it being stuffed. He stated that she stayed there with a poll holder “who was too drunk to be de cent” and a “man who was a disgrace to the people of that ward.” He de clared that when the box was opened the woman found ballots stacked just as they had come from the printer in a way impossible for them to have been properly put into the box. ' “I don’t mind saying who that was,” the solicitor said, “It was John Ham let.” Evans spoke of “ole rum runners’ row” which he said had been given special parking privileges *in front of fthe courthouse and declared that they could not possibly make a legitimate living. He ridiculed the police for not uncovering “lotteries on Fayetteville street” during the baseball season and declared that if they. could not find them he did not see how they found the city hall. > He declared that the same situa tion 'which had existed in the Greek cafes at the Union Station was now existing within a hundred yards of the police station. ANOTHER 1-CENT CUT IN GASOLINE PRICE HAS BEEN ANNOUNCED New York, April 7.—Another re duction of 1 cent a gallon in gasoline prices was announced today by the Standard Oil Company of New Jer sey throughout its territory, except ing West Virginia, where no change was made, and in South Carolina, where the reduction was only* half a cent. The tank wagon price in New Jer sey is now 17 cents a gallon; Mary land, Virginia, and North Carolina, 15 cents; South Carolina, 18% cents; South Carolina, 18% cents, and Wash ington, D. C., 17 cents. * CAROLINA JEFFERSONIAN DISTRIBUTED BY PLANE Airplane Will Fly Over Smithfield and Drop the Papers to Visitors at Exposition at Smithfield On account of the exposition to be^ held in Smithfield next week, The Carolina Jeffersonian has arranged to have several thousand copies of this week’s publication distributed there. The paper will be distributed from an aeroplane, which will encircle the town of Smithfield on Monday. This aero plane will carry several thousand cop ies of the Carolina Jeffersonian, drop ping them among the visitors at Smithfield. We are carrying in this issue a number of advertisements for the bus iness people of this, one of the most substantial and progressive business towns in the State of North Carolina. It is conceded by every one familiar with the State of North Carolina that Johnston county is one of the best in the State and that Smithfield is a leader as a thriving wide-awake city. One of the advertisements is that of Cotter-Underwood Co. This is one of the most substantial dry goods and grocery establishments in North Car olina, carrying an authorized capital of $25,000 and a surplus of $230,000. •In addition to dry goods and groceries, this concern handles furniture and cotton, also doing an undertaking busi ness. Also will be found in this issue an advertisement of the Sanitary Barber Shop of Smithfield. This is considered one of the most up-to-date and thor oughly equipped barber shops in the State. This shop is under the super <$—-—--T- —-^ ■• -. vision of the well known and expe rienced barber, Mr. C. R. Pittman. The Rabil’s Department Store of Smithfield have an advertisement in this issue. This establishment carries a select line of ladies’ and gents’ shoes, handling the well known W. L. Douglas shoes, as well as a full line of ladies’ dresses, coats and hats, and in fact everything in ladies wearing apparel. While in Smithfield you will find the Victory Theatre located on the main, boulevard to Doctor’s Lake. See their ad. in this issue. A delightful place to get lunches, drinks and smokes while in Smithfield attending the exposition will be the Sundry Shoppe situated directly across the street from the courthouse. See their advertisement in this issue. We invite your attention to R. S. Smith & Company, dealers in high grade clothing. This is one of the most progressive stores in the city of Smithfield and they will appreciate your calling on them during the expo sition. You will be accorded polite and courteous service. There are many other interesting places of business advertised in this issue of the Carolina Jeffersonian. Each of whicjt will be glad to have you call on them during Exposition Week and you may be assured as rep (Continued on page 5.) » TYPHOID MARYS It is conceded by every sane thinker that there is nothing " more damnable, dangerous and deadly than the slinky drip pings of a slanderous tongue._It has ever been so and will ever be so. The first record we find, and the first admoni tion as to its treachery, is in the New Testament. The Apos tle James Well understood the evil of the wrong use *of the tongue. After reciting many things that can be done by , man he tells us this (James, 3d chapter, 7th and 8th verses): “For every kind of beasts, and of birds, and of serpents, and of things in the sea, is tamed, and hath been tamed of man kind: But the tongue can no man tame; it is an unruly evil, full of deadly poison.” So many lives have been wrecked; so many businesses destroyed; so many homes made desolate; so much uncalled for suffering has been occasioned by this evil that seems to ever be among us that it would be well for the ministers of the land, together with every other good citi zen to center a fight against this one appalling menace. No better illustration can be given than Bruce Barton recites in an editorial in the current issue of the Red Book. Here it is: “Without confiding his plans to anybody, a very busy man slipped off for his first vacation. . When he returned, an acquaintance stopped him on the street, staring at him in obvious amazement. ; “‘Why the ghastly glanct*?’” exclaimed the man, who was feeling j jovial and fit. ‘What is so strange about my taking a vacation?’ “‘Vacation!’ repeated the other. ‘Do you know what they are say ing about you? Six different people have told me that you had broken down and were in a sanitorium out West ’ “One of the oldest, most stable concerns of its kind suffered a tempo rary embarrassment through the failure of a customer. There was no permanent loss, but rumors spread fast. » “‘They are busted,’ said the couriers of misfortune. ‘They have dis charged ninety people.’ ‘They will announce their suspension tomor row.’ “It happened that the company, at that very hour, had more than a million dollars in cash in the banks. Did the rumor-mongers stop to learn this fact? They did not; each was too eager to be the first to spread the fatal tidings. “The president of the company traveled from hank to bank, and !' office to office, presenting the facts. Sometimes he had to show his ■>. bank-books in order to make himself believed. ; “Two gentlemen of inquiring turn of mind dedided to test the rumor possibilities of business. They agreed that each of them would stop the j first three individuals he met and conduct the following conversation: -j “ ‘Have you heard about Smith?’—a man prominent in their industry. “‘No?’ “ ‘Well, if you haven’t heard anything, don’t say anything.’ “Within a week it was widely reported that: (1) Smith was dead; (2) He had been fired; (3) He had quarreled with his boss and re signed; (4) He was about to be divorced; (5) He had disappeared with " the company’s funds. After answering thousands of phone-calls and letters, poor Smith was driven to buy space in the trade press, to explain that he contem- ' plated no business change, and that all rumors about him were *!' groundless. * J “Do you remember Typhoid Mary? The health authorities rounded I; her up after a long search. She a walking hive of typhoid-germs, and, though not sick herself, she made everybody sick whom she met. “Business is full of male Typhoid Marys. They are a vast and costly ! nuisance. Having too little to do, they wander from office to office, ' spreading germs of suspicion and fear. * ' “I ask the Rockefeller Institute to invent a serum which will annihi- ! late these business pests. I ask the Secretary of Agriculture to spray them, like gypsy moths, in the spring.
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